At a meeting in Arzon, France, on June 14-16, the Management Committee of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) awarded a number UCI World Championships. These include a new UCI Gravel World Championships, which builds on a previously unveiled UCI Gravel World Series.
2022 and 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships
The two forthcoming editions of the event will take place in Italy: the first in the Veneto region in the north-east of the country on October 8-9, 2022; the second on September 30 to October 1, 2023, in a location to be confirmed.
2023 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships
The 2023 event, organised by Zwift, will take place in the second half of February 2023 (with the exact date to be confirmed). The event’s virtual route will be open to subscribers to the Zwift platform. The qualifying competitions will take place in November 2022.
The UCI Management Committee also approved the calendars for the 2023 UCI Women’s WorldTour, 2023 UCI WorldTour.
2023 UCI Women’s WorldTour
Four new events will join this calendar: the Women’s Santos Tour Down Under (which had UCI ProSeries status in 2020 then was cancelled in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic); the UAE Tour (new event which joins the existing men’s competition); the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (which moves from UCI ProSeries status to UCI Women’s WorldTour status); and the Tour de Suisse (also moving from UCI ProSeries status to UCI Women’s WorldTour status).
2023 UCI WorldTour
The events on this calendar, previously approved by the Professional Cycling Council at its meeting on June 2, 2022, are… ‘registered for the 2023-2025 cycle subject to the successful organisation of each edition of the concerned races.’
