The 2024 world championships will be held in Zurich, Switzerland , and feature race profiles that are sure to attract the best runners on the planet. After the 2023 World Championships bringing together all cycling disciplines for the first time (road, track, mountain bike, BMX, etc.), the 2024 season will see a return to a more classic format, with only road events. Zurich follows Glasgow, and Switzerland will thus host the Road World Championships for the eleventh time. As has often been the case in recent years, the course will be hilly, ideal for punchers but suitable for different rider profiles. There will be many candidates, a few weeks after the Paris Olympic Games, to succeed Mathieu van der Poel in the road race, and Remco Evenepoel in the time trial. The French team will have to do better, after disappointing results and no individual medals on the road last year. The record had nevertheless been saved by a silver medal in the mixed relay. Like last year, paracycling will also be an integral part of these world championships. For the first time in the history of the competition, the finish line for all categories will be located at the same place: on Zurich's Sechseläutenplatz. In the road races, for both men and women, the course will mainly consist of of a 27-kilometer loop with two hills: the Zürichbergstrasse (1.1 km at an average of 8%) which will precede the ascent of Witikon (2.3 km at 5.7%). The men's race will be 279.2 kilometers long, with 7 laps of the final circuit to conclude, and will include no less than 4,389 meters of positive elevation gain. The women's race will be 154.1 kilometres long, comprising only 4 laps of the final circuit, with 2488 metres of elevation gain. positive. Profile of the men's road race of the 2024 UCI Road World Championships © Union Cycliste Interntionale, Zurich 2024 The men's individual time trial will have a distance of 46.6 kilometers and will not be entirely flat, since two bumps appear in the middle of the course. The profile of the women's time trial is similar, but only 29.9 kilometers long. The World Cycling Championships will take place again at the end of the season in 2024, after a 2023 edition moved to early August. They will take place from September 21 to 29, 2024. All the events will be broadcast on the various channels of the France TV group, and on the Eurosport channels.
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ByTeilor Stone
Sep 30, 2024
By Teilor Stone
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