Peter Sagan to ride the UCI Gravel World Championships to ‘give back to the people’

‘I still have much more to give’ says Sagan on the decision to head to Italy for the competition

Peter Sagan
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Peter Sagan will head to Italy in early October to compete in the first ever edition of the UCI gravel World Championships

The first two editions of the competition are scheduled to take place in Italy, with Sagan lining up on the start line at the first edition in Veneto, Northern Italy on 8-9 October 2022. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.