The World Cycling Championships will take place in Haute-Savoie in 2027, announced the International Cycling Union (UCI) at its congress on Thursday on the sidelines of the Worlds in Wollongong, Australia.
France and the Netherlands were the two countries in the running to win these "Super World Championships", now bringing together every pre-Olympic year all the disciplines of cycling, from road to BMX via track and mountain biking, including disabled.
This expanded format will thus offer 13 disciplines next year in Glasgow, Scotland, and will increase to 19 disciplines in 2027 during the World Championships which will take place from September 11 to 26 in Haute-Savoie where the World Mountain Bike Championships have met a great success this summer in Les Gets with in particular the coronation of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
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Haute-Savoie 🇫🇷 will be hosting the second edition of the UCI Cycling World Championships in 2027, uniting cycling's disciplines 🌎#HauteSavoie2027 |
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“It is a great satisfaction for French cycling which will bring all the spotlight to our sport.
My ambition is that it appears at the same level as a Rugby World Cup or a Euro football ”, reacted to AFP the president of the French Cycling Federation (FFC), Michel Callot.
The queen event, the road race, will take place on a course which will be the copy-paste of that of the 1980 Worlds won in Sallanches by the Frenchman Bernard Hinault, after the famous Domancy coast.
The French and Dutch candidacies were decided by a vote of the UCI Management Committee which met on Tuesday and Wednesday and which also designated Montreal as the organizing city of the 2026 World Cycling Championships on the road, one after Rwanda and two years after Switzerland.
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