UCI Road World Championships 2024: Routes, how to watch and all you need to know

The 2024 UCI Road and Para-Cycling Road World Championships will be held in Zürich, Switzerland from Saturday 21st September to Sunday 29th September.

A total of 66 rainbow jerseys will be awarded in individual time-trials and road races with Zürich combining the Road and Para-Cycling Road World Championships together for the first time.

Last year, Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) staged a late breakaway in the dying kilometres for victory ahead of Demi Vollering (Netherlands) and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Denmark), just a few days after winning two gold medals on the track. In the men’s race, neither a sudden crash nor bloodied knee could stop Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) from pulling on the rainbow bands. He had jumped clear from a strong break containing Wout van Aert (Belgium), Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) and Mads Pedersen (Denmark).

Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) and Chloé Dygert (United States) rode their way to glory in the elite time-trials.

UCI Road World Championships 2024: Key information

Dates: Saturday 21st September – Sunday 29th September
Location: Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Gossau in Switzerland
TV coverage: BBC, FloBikes, Eurosport, SBS Sport

UCI Road World Championships 2024: Full race programme

Day 1: Saturday 21st September

• 17:15: Mixed H Team Relay

Day 2: Sunday 22nd September

• 10:00: Women B Individual Time-Trial
• 10:00: Women C5 Individual Time-Trial
• 10:00: Women C4 Individual Time-Trial
• 12:00: Women Elite Individual Time-Trial
• 14:45: Men Elite Individual Time-Trial

Day 3: Monday 23rd September

• 09:15: Men Junior Individual Time-Trial
• 12:15: Men B Individual Time-Trial
• 12:15: Men C5 Individual Time-Trial
• 12:15: Men C4 Individual Time-Trial
• 14:45: Men U23 Individual Time-Trial

Day 4: Tuesday 24th September

• 08:30: Women Junior Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men C3 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men C2 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men C1 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men H5 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men H4 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men H3 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men H2 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Men H1 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Women C3 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Women C2 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Women C1 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Women H5 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Women H4 Individual Time-Trial
• 11:00: Women H3 Individual Time-Trial
• 16:00: Men T2 Individual Time-Trial
• 16:00: Men T1 Individual Time-Trial
• 16:00: Women H2 Individual Time-Trial
• 16:00: Women H1 Individual Time-Trial
• 16:00: Women T2 Individual Time-Trial
• 16:00: Women T1 Individual Time-Trial

Day 5: Wednesday 25th September

• 10:45: Men B Road Race
• 10:45: Women B Road Race
• 14:00: Team Time Trial Mixed Relay

Day 6: Thursday 26th September

• 09:00: Men H2 Road Race
• 09:00: Men H1 Road Race
• 09:00: Women H5 Road Race
• 09:00: Women H4 Road Race
• 09:00: Women H3 Road Race
• 09:00: Women H2 Road Race
• 09:00: Women H1 Road Race
• 10:00: Women Junior Road Race
• 12:15: Men C5 Road Race
• 12:15: Men C4 Road Race
• 12:15: Men C3 Road Race
• 14:15: Men Junior Road Race

Day 7: Friday 27th September

• 08:30: Men C2 Road Race
• 08:30: Men C1 Road Race
• 11:00: Men T2 Road Race
• 11:00: Men T1 Road Race
• 11:00: Women T2 Road Race
• 11:00: Women T1 Road Race
• 12:45: Men U23 Road Race

Day 8: Saturday 28th September

• 08:15: Men H3 Road Race
• 10:45: Women C3 Road Race
• 10:45: Women C2 Road Race
• 10:45: Women C1 Road Race
• 10:45: Women C5 Road Race
• 10:45: Women C4 Road Race
• 12:45: Women Elite Road Race

Day 9: Sunday 29th September

• 09:45: Men H4 Road Race
• 09:45: Men H5 Road Race
• 10:30: Men Elite Road Race

UCI Road World Championships 2024: Route maps and profiles

Time-Trials

Women’s Elite Individual Time-Trial

The elite women’s individual time-trial is a 29.9km route from Gossau to Zürich with 327m of elevation hitting in the first half of course. The second half traverses Lake Zürich. The course is the same one used for the Women and Men’s B and C4-5 races plus the U23 men.

Men’s Elite Individual Time-Trial

The elite men’s individual time-trial is 46.1km and begins in Oerlikon, Zürich. The first section is pan flat before they join the same route used for the elite women’s race, heading west to Lake Zürich and finishing in Sechseläutenplatz.

Junior Men Individual Time-Trial

The 24.9km route for the junior men takes place on the last section of the elite courses. Beginning just south of the finish line, the flat route takes riders south towards Meilen where, just prior to the (town), they will loop back on themselves to finish in Sechseläutenplatz.

Junior Women Individual Time-Trial

18.8km in length, the junior women’s course loops back on itself just prior to Herrliberg, making it slightly shorter in length than the junior men’s course. It’s also the same route used for the Women C1-3 and H3-5 time-trials plus the Men’s C1-3 and H1-5 ones too.

Mixed Relay Team Time-Trial

The mixed relay team time-trial sees three men complete one lap of a 26.85km city circuit followed by three women then riding the same route for a combined total of 53.7km. Home nation Switzerland is the defending champions in this event with Stefan Bissegger, Elise Chabbey, Nicole Koller, Stefan Küng, Marlen Reusser and Mauro Schmid beating France last year by 7 seconds.

Road Races

Women Junior Road Race

The junior women complete two loops, one of a Greifensee circuit around the lake followed by one of the city circuit for 73.6km of racing.

Men Junior Road Race

The junior men follow the same circuit as the women from Uster with an additional two more loops of the city circuit (three in total) to notch up 127.2km in the saddle.

Men U23 Road Race

On the same course, the U23 men will cover two loops around Greifensee followed by four of the city circuit to total 2,483m of elevation over 173.6km.

Women Elite Road Race

The women’s elite road race leaves Uster and heads towards the Greifensee circuit. Riders then encounter four laps of the city circuit to see who will become the new World Champion.

Men Elite Road Race

The men also follow the same course but with seven laps of the city circuit for 4,470m of elevation over 273.9km to potentially dethrone Van der Poel.

UCI Road World Championships 2024: How to watch

As host broadcaster, SRG in Switzerland will produce live pictures from Zurich with Eurosport broadcasting coverage throughout Europe. The BBC owns the rights in the UK and will show races across BBC Sport and on iPlayer. FloBikes is the place to go if you’re in the United States and Canada. Australia will show the action on SBS Sport and SBS On Demand.

Discovery+ is also broadcasting the World Championships for £6.99 per month with the basic package, which includes cycling and all other Eurosport programmes.

If it’s not being shown in your country, you may be able to watch coverage using a VPN – Virtual Private Network – which allows users to mask their IP address and watch geo-blocked content, provided they don’t need to pay for a subscription. This is also helpful for watching paid-for coverage while abroad in countries without access.  

One such example is ExpressVPN, which is very well reviewed, helps users to find a way to watch cycling without having to pay for broadcasters services, and costs £5.36 per month, with three months free. Other options include NordVPN, Surfshark and Kapersky.

• Read more: How to watch cycling post-GCN

UCI Road World Championships: Results and defending champions from 2023

Elite

Men’s Road Race

• Winner: Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands)
• Second: Wout van Aert (Belgium)
• Third: Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia)

Women’s Road Race

• Winner: Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
• Second: Demi Vollering (Netherlands)
• Third: Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Denmark)

Men’s Time-Trial

• Winner: Remco Evenepoel (Belgium)
• Second: Filippo Ganna (Italy)
• Third: Josh Tarling (Great Britain)

Women’s Time-Trial

• Winner: Chloé Dygert (United States)
• Second: Grace Brown (Australia)
• Third: Christina Schweinberger (Austria)

Mixed Relay

• Winner: Switzerland
• Second: France
• Third: Germany

Under-23

Men’s Road Race

• Winner: Axel Laurance (France)
• Second: António Morgado (Portugal)
• Third: Martin Svrček (Slovakia)

Women’s Road Race

• Winner: Blanka Vas (Hungary)
• Second: Shirin van Anrooij (Netherlands)
• Third: Anna Shackley (Great Britain)

Men’s Time-Trial

• Winner: Lorenzo Milesi (Italy)
• Second: Alec Segaert (Belgium)
• Third: Hamish McKenzie (Australia)

Women’s Time-Trial

• Winner: Antonia Niedermaier (Germany)
• Second: Cédrine Kerbaol (France)
• Third: Julie De Wilde (Belgium)

Junior

Junior Men’s Road Race

• Winner: Albert Philipsen (Denmark)
• Second: Paul Fietzke (Germany)
• Third: Felix Ørn-Kristoff (Norway)

Junior Women’s Road Race

• Winner: Julie Bego (France)
• Second: Cat Ferguson (Great Britain)
• Third: Fleur Moors (Belgium)

Junior Men’s Time-Trial

• Winner: Oscar Chamberlain (Australia)
• Second: Ben Wiggins (Great Britain)
• Third: Louis Leidert (Germany)

Junior Women’s Time-Trial

• Winner: Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (Australia)
• Second: Isabel Sharp (Great Britain)
• Third: Federica Venturelli (Italy)

UCI Road Paracycling World Championships: Results and defending champions from 2023

Men’s 10.8km Time-Trial

Men’s C1

• Winner: Ricardo Ten Argiles (Spain)
• Second: Michael Teuber (Germany)
• Third: Aaron Keith (United States)

Men’s C2

• Winner: Alexandre Léauté (France)
• Second: Darren Hicks (Australia)
• Third: Ewoud Vromant (Belgium)

Men’s C3

• Winner: Matthias Schindler (Germany)
• Second: Finlay Graham (Great Britain)
• Third: Michael Sametz (Canada)

Men’s H1

• Winner: Pieter du Preez (South Africa)
• Second: Maxime Hordies (Belgium)
• Third: Fabrizio Cornegliani (Italy)

Men’s H2

• Winner: Sergio Garrote (Spain)
• Second: Florian Jouanny (France)
• Third: Luca Mazzone (Italy)

Men’s 17.8km Time-Trial

Men’s H3

• Winner: Mark Mekenkamp (Netherlands)
• Second: Ryan Pinney (United States)
• Third: Federico Mestroni (Italy)

Men’s H4

• Winner: Jetze Plat (Netherlands)
• Second: Mathieu Bosredon (France)
• Third: Joseph Fritsch (France)

Men’s H5

• Winner: Mitch Valize (Netherlands)
• Second: Tim de Vries (Netherlands)
• Third: Luac Vergnaud (France)

Men’s 28.4km Time-Trial

Men’s B

• Winner: Tristan Bangma, Patrick Bos (p) (Netherlands)
• Second: Vincent ter Schure, Timo Fransen (p) (Netherlands)
• Third: Elie de Carvalho, Mikhael Guichard (p) (France)

Men’s C4

• Winner: Kévin Le Cunff (France)
• Second: Gatien Le Rousseau (France)
• Third: Jozef Metelka (Slovakia)

Men’s C5

• Winner: Daniel Abraham Gebru (Netherlands)
• Second: Lauro Chaman (Brazil)
• Third: Dorian Foulon (France)

Men’s 28.4km Road Race

Men’s H1

• Winner: Maxime Hordies (Belgium)
• Second: Fabrizio Cornegliani (Italy)
• Third: Pieter du Preez (South Africa)

Men’s T1

• Winner: Lu Rongfei (China)
• Second: Chen Jianxin (China)
• Third: Nathan Clement (Canada)

Men’s 37.8km Road Race

Men’s T2

• Winner: Dennis Connors (United States)
• Second: Tim Celen (Belgium)
• Third: Maximilian Jager (Germany)

Men’s 47.3km Road Race

Men’s H2

• Winner: Florian Jouanny (France)
• Second: Sergio Garrote (Spain)
• Third: Luca Mazzone (Italy)

Men’s 66.2km Road Race

Men’s H3

• Winner: Mirko Testa (Italy)
• Second: Johan Quaile (France)
• Third: Vico Merklein (Germany)

Men’s H4

• Winner: Jonas van de Steene (Netherlands)
• Second: Mathieu Bosredon (France)
• Third: Thomas Frühwirth (Austria)

Men’s H5

• Winner: Mitch Walize (Netherlands)
• Second: Tim de Vries (Netherlands)
• Third: Loïc Vergnaud (France)

Men’s 70.2km Road Race

Men’s C1

• Winner: Liang Weicong (China)
• Second: Ricardo Ten (Spain)
• Third: Michael Teuber (Germany)

Men’s C2

• Winner: Alexandre Leaute (France)
• Second: Darren Hicks (Australia)
• Third: Ewoud Vromant (Belgium)

Men’s C3

• Winner: Finlay Graham (Great Britain)
• Second: Thomas Darte (France)
• Third: Ben Watson (Great Britain)

Men’s 81.9km Road Race

Men’s C4

• Winner: Kévin Le Cunff (France)
• Second: Ronan Grimes (Ireland)
• Third: Archie Atkinson (Great Britain)

Men’s C5

• Winner: William Bjergfelt (Great Britain)
• Second: Yehor Dementyev (Ukraine)
• Third: Andrea Tarlao (Italy)

Men’s 105.3km Road Race

Men’s B

• Winner: Tristan Bangma, Patrick Bos (Netherlands)
• Second: Vincent ter Schure, Timo Fransen (Netherlands)
• Third: Elie de Carvalho, Mickael Guichard (France)

Women’s 10.8km Time-Trial

Women’s C1

• Winner: Fran Brown (Great Britain)
• Second: Qian Wangwei (China)
• Third: Katie Toft (Great Britain)

Women’s C2

• Winner: Maike Hausberger (Germany)
• Second: Flurina Rigling (Switzerland)
• Third: Amelia Cass (Great Britain)

Women’s C3

• Winner: Anna Beck (Sweden)
• Second: Wang Xiaomei (China)
• Third: Keiko Sugiura (Japan)

Women’s H1

• Winner: Luisa Pasini (Italy)
• Second: Darin Sheepchondan (Thailand)
• Third: Not awarded

Women’s H2

• Winner: Roberta Amadeo (Italy)
• Second: Gilmara do Rosario (Brazil)
• Third: Angela Procida (Italy)

Women’s H3

• Winner: Lauren Parker (Australia)
• Second: Annika Zeyen (Germany)
• Third: Anais Vincent (France)

Women’s H4

• Winner: Jennette Jansen (Netherlands)
• Second: Lee Do-yeon (South Korea)
• Third: Giulia Ruffato (Italy)

Women’s H5

• Winner: Chantal Haenen (Netherlands)
• Second: Andrea Eskau (Germany)
• Third: Ana Vitelaru (Italy)

Women’s T1

• Winner: Pavlina Vejvodova (Czech Republic)
• Second: Eltje Malzbender (New Zealand)
• Third: Shelley Gautier (Canada)

Women’s T2

• Winner: Cecline van Till (Switzerland)
• Second: Angelika Dreock-Kaser (Germany)
• Third: Emma Lund (Denmark)

Women’s 28.5km Time-Trial

Women’s B

• Winner: Katie-George Dunlevy, Linda Kelly (p) (Ireland)
• Second: Sophie Unwin, Jenny Holl (p) (Great Britain)
• Third: Anne Sophie Centis, Elize Delzenne (p) (France)

Women’s C4

• Winner: Samantha Bosco (United States)
• Second: Emily Petricola (Australia)
• Third: Keely Shaw (Canada)

Women’s C5

• Winner: Sarah Storey (Great Britain)
• Second: Alana Forster (Australia)
• Third: Heïdi Gaugain (France)

Women’s 28.4km Road Race

Women’s H1

• Winner: Luisa Pasini (Italy)
• Second: Darin Sheepchondan (Thailand)
• Third: Not awarded

Women’s T1

• Winner: Pavlina Vejvodová (Czech Republic)
• Second: Eltje Malzbender (New Zealand)
• Third: Shelley Gautier (Canada)

Women’s 37.8km Road Race

Women’s T2

• Winner: Emma Lund (Denmark)
• Second: Celine van Till (Switzerland)
• Third: Jana Majunke (Germany)

Women’s 47.3km Road Race

Women’s H2

• Winner: Roberta Amadeo (Italy)
• Second: Angela Procida (Italy)
• Third: Gilmara do Rosário (Brazil)

Women’s 66.2km Road Race

Women’s H3

• Winner: Annika Zeyen (Germany)
• Second: Lauren Parker (Australia)
• Third: Anais Vincent (France)

Women’s H4

• Winner: Jennette Jansen (Netherlands)
• Second: Lee Do-yeon (South Korea)
• Third: Suzanna Tangen (Norway)

Women’s H5

• Winner: Oksana Masters (United States)
• Second: Chantal Haenen (Netherlands)
• Third: Andrea Eskau (Germany)

Women’s 70.2km Road Race

Women’s C1

• Winner: Fran Brown (Great Britain)
• Second: Qian Wangwei (China)
• Third: Yang Jiafan (China)

Women’s C2

• Winner: Flurina Rigling (Switzerland)
• Second: Daniela Munévar(Colombia)
• Third: Maike Hausberger (Germany)

Women’s C3

• Winner: Wang Xiaomei (China)
• Second: Keiko Sugiura (Japan)
• Third: Paige Greco (Australia)

Women’s 81.9km Road Race

Women’s C4

• Winner: Samantha Bosco (United States)
• Second: Emily Petricola (Australia)
• Third: Meg Lemon (Australia)

Women’s C5

• Winner: Sarah Storey (Great Britain)
• Second: Heïdi Gaugain (France)
• Third: Paula Ossa Veloza (Colombia)

Women’s 105.3km Road Race

Women’s B

• Winner: Katie-George Dunlevy, Linda Kelly (Ireland)
• Second: Otylia Marczuk, Ewa Bankowska (Poland)
• Third: Sophie Unwin, Jenny Holl (Great Britain)

Mixed Event: H1-5 15.8km Team Relay

• Winner: France
• Second: Germany
• Third: United States

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