UCI Cycling World Championships | |
Status: | Active |
Genre: | Road bicycle racing,Track cycling,Marathon mountain bike racing,Mountain bike trials,BMX racing,Freestyle BMX,Artistic cycling |
Date: | August–September |
Frequency: | Quadrennially |
Location: | Various |
Next: | 2027 |
Organised: | UCI |
The UCI Cycling World Championships is the multi-discipline world championship event for cycle sports, organised by its governing body the (UCI). It brings together the individual cycling disciplines, which hold separate UCI World Championships events, to be held as part of one event every 4 years; these disciplines will also continue to hold separate annual world championship events outside of the planned quadrennial editions. The inaugural edition was held in 2023, and further editions are to be held in the year preceding the Olympic Games.[1]
The inaugural edition was hosted by the United Kingdom and ran from 3 to 13 August 2023 in Glasgow.[2]
It included 13 individual UCI World Championships, and was billed as the biggest ever cycling event.[3] It was announced that the championship would cover the events listed below:[4]
The 2027 edition is to be held in Haute-Savoie in France. It will include 19 disciplines: all those featuring in 2023, as well as gravel and junior track events. [5]