UCI confirms 12-race Gravel World Series calendar

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The Union Cycliste Internationale these days introduced the Trek UCI Gravel Planet Sequence, a mass-participant collection of 12 events that give riders a prospect to qualify for the initially UCI Gravel Environment Championships. The UCI nonetheless has not announced a day or a area for gravel worlds.

Back in February, a checklist of the Trek UCI Gravel Planet Sequence events was leaked. That list contained 14 occasions.

1 of the events, Jingle Gravel, has posted on its site that the UCI Gravel Entire world Championships will be held in Tuscany, Italy in September. VeloNews requested the UCI to confirm this but did not get a reaction.

The UCI mentioned that Trek Bikes signed on as the title sponsor of the sequence by way of 2024.

Although the Gravel World Collection is definitely pretty distinctive from the skilled WorldTour series of races, the UCI does have encounter overseeing mass-participant situations with the UCI Gran Fondo Earth Collection, where by riders can also qualify for the gran fondo worlds.

For the Gravel Planet Sequence, the top 25 p.c of adult men and women from each individual age team will qualify for the UCI Gravel Globe Championships, which will award UCI planet champion titles for each individual age team.

A person critical variance amongst the UCI Gran Fondo Earth Sequence and the UCI Gravel Planet Sequence is that professionals will be allowed to race the gravel situations.

It continues to be to be found which professionals will do the gravel worlds, as many have told VeloNews that they currently have commitments to a full calendar of races this calendar year.

Bicycle rules will be in the same way comfortable, as something style of bike but an e-bicycle will be allowed.

There are two races in the U.S., two in Australia, just one in the Philippines, and the rest in Europe.

“I am thrilled that we now have an fascinating and rich calendar of gravel activities for riders with an adventurous spirit who enjoy cycling on unsealed streets and paths,” UCI president David Lappartient explained in a press release. “The UCI Gran Fondo Environment Sequence is amazingly well known, and I am persuaded that this thought will be similarly effective for the gravel structure.”

2022 Trek UCI Gravel Entire world Sequence

April 3: UCI Gravel Philippines, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija (PHI)
Might 15: 7, Nannup (AUS)
June 5: Desire A person Gravel Race, Millau (FRA)
June 19: Gravel Adventure, Swieradow-Zdroj (POL)
June 25: Highlands Gravel Classic, Fayetteville (United states)
August 6: Jingle GX Gravel Race, Amana (United states of america)
August 20: Gravel Grit n Grind, Halmstad (SWE)
August 27: Houffa Gravel, Houffalize (BEL)
September 3: La Monsterrato-Strade Bianche Monferrato, Quattordio (ITA)
September 4: Gravelista, Beechworth (AUS)
September 17: Gravel 1 Fifty, Veenhuizen (NED)
September 18: Ranxo, Ponts (ESP)