2025 Gravel Global Championships in Doubt as UCI Rules Out Great Britain Hosting Main Event in October

In a marvel building on Tuesday, the UCI introduced the 2025 Gravel Global Championships would now not be held in Great, France on October 18-19. 

A seek for a brand new host venue, and perhaps a brand new calendar date, will start straight away, with the Championships simply 8 months away. Mathieu van der Poel gained the boys’s gravel global name in 2024, with Marianne Vos successful the ladies’s race.

“The UCI and the City of Nice acknowledged the difficulties of organising the event in the capital of the French Riviera on that date, and in view of various constraints, technical and regarding the calendar, it was mutually agreed not to organize the 4th edition of the UCI worlds for gravel in Nice,” a remark from the UCI learn.

The UCI indicated within the quick remark that “various options” had been already to be had and so they had been learning those choices for each a brand new venue and new organiser.

The primary two editions of the UCI Gravel Global Championships had been hosted in Veneto, Italy and ultimate 12 months in Leuven, Belgium. 

The following 4 editions had been set to happen throughout 3 continents – Great in 2025; Nannup, Western Australia in 2026; Haute-Savoie, France in 2027; and Alula, Saudi Arabia in 2028.

Distinctive to the gravel self-discipline are the 1000’s of newbie riders throughout more than one age teams who can compete for rainbow stripes and global name designations, using the similar route because the elite men and women. Remaining 12 months there have been 23 general global titles made up our minds, with 21 different winners throughout age teams from 19 to 80 along with the elite victories through Van der Poel and Vos. 

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A qualification procedure the usage of ends up in the UCI Gravel Global Collection has been used since 2022, with the highest 25% of particular person match finishers in every age class incomes entries into the Global Championships. For this 12 months’s Worlds, a couple of qualifiers had been held in past due 2024, and 20 extra occasions had been at the calendar previous to mid-October. 

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