UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
Moments 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.
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	varying
Frequency	annual
Inaugurated	1990 (1990)
Organised by	UCI

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[2] 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.^[3] The four-cross events were removed again after the 2021 edition.

Venues

Year Country City 1990  United States Durango 1991  Italy Barga 1992  Canada Bromont 1993  France Métabief 1994  United States Vail 1995  Germany Kirchzarten 1996  Australia Cairns 1997  Switzerland Château-d'Œx 1998  Canada Mont-Sainte-Anne 1999  Sweden Åre 2000  Spain Sierra Nevada 2001  United States Vail 2002  Austria Kaprun 2003  Switzerland Lugano 2004  France Les Gets 2005  Italy Livigno 2006  New Zealand Rotorua 2007  United Kingdom Fort William 2008  Italy Val di Sole 2009  Australia Canberra

Year Country City 2010  Canada Mont-Sainte-Anne 2011  Switzerland Champery 2012  Austria Leogang-Saalfelden 2013  South Africa Pietermaritzburg 2014  Norway Lillehammer 2015  Andorra Vallnord 2016  Czech Republic  Italy Nové Město Val di Sole 2017  Italy  Australia Val di Sole Cairns 2018  Switzerland Lenzerheide 2019  Canada Mont-Sainte-Anne 2020  Austria Leogang[4] 2021  Italy Val di Sole 2022  France Les Gets 2023  United Kingdom Glasgow 2024  Andorra Vallnord 2025  Switzerland Valais 2026  Italy Val di Sole

World Eliminator Championships

Year	Country	City
2019	Belgium	Waremme
2020	Belgium	Leuven
2021	Austria	Graz
2022	Spain	Barcelona[5]
2023	Indonesia	Palangka Raya

World Championships 4-Cross

Year	Country	City
2015	Italy	Val di Sole
2016	Italy	Val di Sole
2017	Italy	Val di Sole
2019	Italy	Val di Sole [6]
2021	Italy	Val di Sole

Events

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

See also

• UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships
• UCI Trials World Championships
• UCI Urban Cycling World Championships
• UCI Mountain Bike World Eliminator Championships
• UCI Mountain Bike World 4-Cross Championships

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships.

• UCI mountain bike page
• UCI Mountain Bike World Championships page

This page was last edited on 29 March 2024, at 01:46