UCI Road World Championships

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Publication date: 19 Jan 2025

About the UCI Road World Championships

The Bicycle Road Cycling World Championships (official name: UCI Road World Championships) are the annual championships for bicycle road cycling organized by the International Cycling Union (UCI).

Athletes competing in the World Championships represent the national teams of their countries, except for team racing.

Official Cycling Championships website 

2024 UCI Road World Championships

The UCI has announced the Swiss city of Zurich as the venue for the 2024 Road Cycling World Championships. The competition will take place from September 21 to 29, 2024.

History of the Championships

The first World Championships for professional cyclists were held in 1927 at the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany. Ultimately, this championship was won by the Italian cyclist Alfredo Binda.

Soviet cyclists started taking part in world championships in 1954, when the USSR Cycling Federation was accepted into the UCI.

The first women’s cycling championship was not held until 1958.

Since 1994, a time trial race has been held to award the title of world champion in the men’s and women’s categories.

Since 2023, world road cycling championships will be held every four years as part of the larger UCI Road World Championships. The first event of this kind will take place in Glasgow in 2023 and will combine 13 World Championships in cycling across disciplines.

Results of the previous Championships

The year Venue Results
2023 Glasgow, Scotland Gold:

Men’s road race – Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands);

Men’s time trial – Remco Evenepoel (Belgium);

Women’s road race – Lotte Kopecky (Belgium);

Women’s time trial – Chloe Digert (USA).

2022 Wollongong, Australia Gold:

Men’s road race – Remco Evenepoel (Belgium);

Men’s time trial – Tobias Foss (Norway);

Women’s road race – Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands);

Women’s time trial – Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands).

2021 Flanders, Belgium Gold:

Men’s road race – Julian Alaphilippe (France);

Men’s time trial – Filippo Gana (Italy);

Women’s road race – Elisa Balsamo (Italy);

Women’s time trial – Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands).

2025 UCI Road World Championships

There is already information that the next World Road Cycling Championships will be held in Kigali (Rwanda) from September 21 to 28. This will be the first time the UCI Road World Championships will be held in Africa.

The 2025 UCI Road World Championships will include several disciplines:

  • road cycling;
  • mountain bike (cross-country, marathon, downhill);
  • BMX Supercross
  • FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
  • para-cycling on road and track;
  • indoor cycling;
  • Grand Fondo.

 Keep an eye on the dates of cycling championships and other events on our Sports Events Calendar.

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