Uci gravel world championships 2025
UCI Gravel World Series events 2025
UCI Gravel World Series overview
The 2025 Trek UCI Gravel World Series collection of races serve as qualifiers for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, which will be held in Nice, France from October 17-18.
For the fourth season of the series, the first qualifying rounds were scheduled as part of a wrap-around season with a return of Gravelista on October 27, 2024 in Seymour, Victoria, Australia. The 2024 UEC European Gravel Championships were added as well, which were held on October 15, 2024 in Asiago, Italy.
Castellon Gravel Race in Spain will be the opening series event on the 2025 calendar, scheduled for February 15 in Castellon, Spain. This event, plus the next trio of events in Pride spread across the globe in Brazil, Belgium and Portugal, are all new to the series schedule.
Wörthersee Gravel Race in Austria on April 6 is among 18 events returning to the calendar. There are 15 recent qualifiers for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships.
The series launched in 2022 with just 10 events as the UCI added gravel into the mix of more than a dozen disciplines with world championships. In 2023 the UCI added six more qualifying
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Your Privacy UPDATE 21 March 2025: Valkenburg has withdrawn their bid to host the Gravel World Championships.
Correction: Valkenburg is in the Netherlands, not Denmark as originally published.
The 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships could take place in Valkenburg, Netherlands next October according to a recent article by Marcel van Herten at CycloWorld.
The UCI in partnership with Golazo Cycling has been frantically searching for a replacement host city after Friendly, France bailed out last month, just 8 months before the world championships.
Now, according to van Herten, an Instagram screenshot captured just minutes after being posted and then quickly removed shows the 2025 UCI Gravel Planet Championships “official account” listing Valkenburg, Netherlands on 4-5 October for the world championships.
Valkenburg is no stranger to hosting UCI Thoroughfare and Cyclocross World Championships, having done so six times since 1938, with the last one in 2018. In addition, the Netherlands’ Marly Garvel (formerly Gravelfondo Limburg) on 11 May is already a qualifying race for the gravel world championships.
But don’t book travel tickets to the Netherlands yet…
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Everything about the 2025 UCI Gravel Worlds course
#1 Start in Beek
The official start of the Gravel World Championships will be in Beek, a village in South Limburg that is easily approachable and located right in the heart of the hilly region.
#2 Finish on the Groene Loper
The finish will be in Maastricht, on the Groene Loper: a long urban park with a gravel bike path, built on the former A2 highway road. The route back to Beek has yet to be determined, but given the short distance, it won’t be a logistical nightmare like Leuven last year.
#3 50 km loop with 560 meters of elevation
The course consists of a 50 km loop with 560 meters of climbing. Depending on your category, you’ll complete the loop one, two, or three times. The longest route will cover about 170 km and nearly 2000 meters of elevation gain, including the start and finish sections.
#4 Starting loop on wide tarmac roads
During the first lap, riders will begin with a 5 km stretch on wide asphalt roads, including a steep climb. This allows the peloton to spread out safely early in the race. On subsequent laps, this section will be skipped and riders will go straight onto gravel.
#5 70% gravel and lots of c
2025 UCI Gravel World Championships to be held in Zuid-Limburg, the Netherlands
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, originally set to be hosted in Nice (France) on 18 and 19 October, will finally take place in the Zuid-Limburg region of the Netherlands on 11 and 12 October.
The Zuid-Limburg region will officially host the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships in close collaboration with the municipalities of Maastricht, Beek and Beekdaelen.
Organized by Golazo, this premier competition will ensure an exceptional experience for riders and spectators alike. Golazo is an international group active in the organisation of sporting events that brings unparalleled expertise in the delivery of premier cycling competitions.
The province of Limburg, of which the Zuid (South)-Limburg region is a part, was awarded the UCI Bike Region label by the UCI in 2016. It has already hosted a number of major UCI events, including the 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships and five editions of the UCI Road World Championships, held in Valkenburg in 1938, 1948, 1979, 1998 and 2012.
Zuid-Limburg offers the perfect blend of ch
UPDATE 21 March 2025: Valkenburg has withdrawn their bid to host the Gravel World Championships.
Correction: Valkenburg is in the Netherlands, not Denmark as originally published.
The 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships could take place in Valkenburg, Netherlands next October according to a recent article by Marcel van Herten at CycloWorld.
The UCI in partnership with Golazo Cycling has been frantically searching for a replacement host city after Friendly, France bailed out last month, just 8 months before the world championships.
Now, according to van Herten, an Instagram screenshot captured just minutes after being posted and then quickly removed shows the 2025 UCI Gravel Planet Championships “official account” listing Valkenburg, Netherlands on 4-5 October for the world championships.
Valkenburg is no stranger to hosting UCI Thoroughfare and Cyclocross World Championships, having done so six times since 1938, with the last one in 2018. In addition, the Netherlands’ Marly Garvel (formerly Gravelfondo Limburg) on 11 May is already a qualifying race for the gravel world championships.
But don’t book travel tickets to the Netherlands yet…
Pedal Performance Group (organizer of Wor
Everything about the 2025 UCI Gravel Worlds course
#1 Start in Beek
The official start of the Gravel World Championships will be in Beek, a village in South Limburg that is easily approachable and located right in the heart of the hilly region.
#2 Finish on the Groene Loper
The finish will be in Maastricht, on the Groene Loper: a long urban park with a gravel bike path, built on the former A2 highway road. The route back to Beek has yet to be determined, but given the short distance, it won’t be a logistical nightmare like Leuven last year.
#3 50 km loop with 560 meters of elevation
The course consists of a 50 km loop with 560 meters of climbing. Depending on your category, you’ll complete the loop one, two, or three times. The longest route will cover about 170 km and nearly 2000 meters of elevation gain, including the start and finish sections.
#4 Starting loop on wide tarmac roads
During the first lap, riders will begin with a 5 km stretch on wide asphalt roads, including a steep climb. This allows the peloton to spread out safely early in the race. On subsequent laps, this section will be skipped and riders will go straight onto gravel.
#5 70% gravel and lots of c
2025 UCI Gravel World Championships to be held in Zuid-Limburg, the Netherlands
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, originally set to be hosted in Nice (France) on 18 and 19 October, will finally take place in the Zuid-Limburg region of the Netherlands on 11 and 12 October.
The Zuid-Limburg region will officially host the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships in close collaboration with the municipalities of Maastricht, Beek and Beekdaelen.
Organized by Golazo, this premier competition will ensure an exceptional experience for riders and spectators alike. Golazo is an international group active in the organisation of sporting events that brings unparalleled expertise in the delivery of premier cycling competitions.
The province of Limburg, of which the Zuid (South)-Limburg region is a part, was awarded the UCI Bike Region label by the UCI in 2016. It has already hosted a number of major UCI events, including the 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships and five editions of the UCI Road World Championships, held in Valkenburg in 1938, 1948, 1979, 1998 and 2012.
Zuid-Limburg offers the perfect blend of ch
2025 UCI Gravel World Championships to be held in Zuid-Limburg, the Netherlands
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, originally set to be hosted in Nice (France) on 18 and 19 October, will finally take place in the Zuid-Limburg region of the Netherlands on 11 and 12 October.
The Zuid-Limburg region will officially host the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships in close collaboration with the municipalities of Maastricht, Beek and Beekdaelen.
Organized by Golazo, this premier competition will ensure an exceptional experience for riders and spectators alike. Golazo is an international group active in the organisation of sporting events that brings unparalleled expertise in the delivery of premier cycling competitions.
The province of Limburg, of which the Zuid (South)-Limburg region is a part, was awarded the UCI Bike Region label by the UCI in 2016. It has already hosted a number of major UCI events, including the 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships and five editions of the UCI Road World Championships, held in Valkenburg in 1938, 1948, 1979, 1998 and 2012.
Zuid-Limburg offers the perfect blend of ch