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UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

Annual world international cycling competition


Summary

Annual world international cycling competition

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nameUCI Mountain Bike World Championships
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captionMoments before the start of the under-23 men's cross-country race at the 2009 World Championships in Canberra, Australia. Eventual winner Burry Stander is second from left.
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organisedUCI

The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are the world championship events for mountain bike racing in the disciplines of cross country, downhill, and four-cross. They are organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body of world cycling.

The first three finishers in each discipline at the World Championships are awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals. The winner of each discipline is also entitled to wear the rainbow jersey in events of the same discipline until the following year's World Championships. Unlike other UCI-sanctioned mountain-bike races, the competitors in the World Championships represent national rather than commercial teams. The World Championships are usually held towards the end of the season.

History

The first UCI Mountain Bike World Championships took place in Durango, Colorado, USA in 1990 and featured only cross-country and downhill events. A separate UCI Trials World Championships had been held since 1986. From 2000 to 2016, the mountain bike and trials disciplines were combined and run as the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. Beginning in 2017, the UCI world championships in trials will be run as part of the newly created UCI Urban Cycling World Championships.

The cross-country team relay was added in 1999. The dual slalom was added in 2000 but replaced by four-cross in 2002. Mountain bike marathon was included on the schedule at the 2003 championships in Lugano, but run separately as the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships from 2004 onwards. The cross-country eliminator was introduced in 2012 but will be part of the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships from 2017 onwards. In 2014 and 2015 the four-cross events were held separately from the other disciplines as the UCI Four-Cross World Championships, but were again included alongside the other mountain-biking disciplines in 2016. The four-cross events were removed again after the 2021 edition.

Venues

YearCountryCity
1990Durango
1991Barga
1992Bromont
1993Métabief
1994Vail
1995Kirchzarten
1996Cairns
1997Château-d'Œx
1998Mont-Sainte-Anne
1999Åre
2000Sierra Nevada
2001Vail
2002Kaprun
2003Lugano
2004Les Gets
2005Livigno
2006Rotorua
2007Fort William
2008Val di Sole
2009Canberra
YearCountryCity
2010Mont-Sainte-Anne
2011Champery
2012Leogang-Saalfelden
2013Pietermaritzburg
2014Lillehammer
2015Vallnord
2016
Nové Město
Val di Sole
2017
Val di Sole
Cairns
2018Lenzerheide
2019Mont-Sainte-Anne
2020Leogang
2021Val di Sole
2022Les Gets
2023Glasgow
2024Vallnord
2025Valais
2026Val di Sole

World Eliminator Championships

YearCountryCity
2019Waremme
2020Leuven
2021Graz
2022Barcelona
2023Palangka Raya
2024Aalen

World Championships 4-Cross

YearCountryCity
2015Val di Sole
2016Val di Sole
2017Val di Sole
2019Val di Sole
2021Val di Sole

Events

Event
Men's cross-country
Men's cross-country eliminator
Men's downhill
Men's dual
Men's four-cross
Men's trials, 20 inch
Men's trials, 26 inch
Women's cross-country
Women's cross-country eliminator
Women's downhill
Women's dual
Women's four-cross
Women's trials
Team relay

UCI MTB World Champions

  • Men's cross-country
  • Women's cross-country
  • Men's cross-country eliminator
  • Women's cross-country eliminator
  • Men's downhill
  • Women's downhill
  • Men's trials, 20 inch
  • Men's trials, 26 inch
  • Women's trials

References

References

  1. [https://dataride.uci.org/iframe/CompetitionResults/55158?disciplineId=7 2020 MTB World Championships Results]
  2. [https://www.the-sports.org/mountain-bike-uci-mountain-bike-and-trials-world-championships-results-2022-men-epm119446.html 2022 World Championships Eliminator Results]
  3. [https://www.the-sports.org/mountain-bike-world-championships-4-cross-results-2019-men-epm95100.html 2019 World Championships 4-Cross Results]
  4. "1986–2014 UCI Trials World Championships Winners". uci.ch.
  5. "Urban Cycling". uci.ch.
  6. "UCI 4X World Championships". uci.ch.
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