The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and MyWhoosh have announced that the fourth edition of the UCI Cycling Esports World Championships, to be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will take place in October 2024.
For the first time, all participants qualified for the final will compete on-site, with the event organiser arranging for the top 20 female and male athletes from the qualifying rounds to travel to Abu Dhabi.
Earlier this year, the UCI announced that MyWhoosh would be the exclusive platform and organiser of the UCI Cycling Esports World Championships for the next three years (2024-2026).
The 2024 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships will include qualifying rounds to decide the finalists competing in Abu Dhabi. More detailed information about the event, including location and exact dates, qualification pathways and details on the format, will be communicated at the beginning of 2024.
In addition to the UCI Cycling Esports World Championships, Abu Dhabi will host the 2024 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, the 2028 UCI Road World Championships, the 2028 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships and the 2029 UCI Track World Championships, confirming its ambitions to becoming a hub for top-class cycling events.
Originally unveiled in 2019, the UCI Esports World Championships had previously been run on the Zwift virtual cycling platform – with the first virtual cycling championships held on December 9, 2020.
Zwift had appeared to be the UCI’s preferred virtual cycling provider. It was also the platform used in the recent Olympic Esports Series 2023 Cycling Finals, held in Singapore in June 2023. Over the years, in collaboration with the UCI, Zwift has focused much attention on boosting the remit of cycling esports.
However, replacing Zwift, UAE-based virtual cycling platform MyWhoosh is now taking up the reins as host platform of UCI Esports World Championships.
