UCI Road Cycling World Championships 2024: Results, routes and schedule

Road World Championships coverage from Cycling Weekly, with up to date race results, news and reports

The women's peloton during the road race at the 2022 World Championships
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Road World Championships schedule
Sunday 22 SeptemberWomen's elite individual time trial29.9km
Row 1 - Cell 0 Men's elite individual time trial46.1km
Monday 23 SeptemberMen's junior individual time trial24.9km
Row 3 - Cell 0 Men's U23 individual time trial29.9km
Tuesday 24 SeptemberWomen's junior individual time trial18.8km
Wednesday 25 SeptemberMixed relay team time trial53.7km
Thursday 26 September Women's junior road race73.6km
Row 7 - Cell 0 Men's junior road race127.2km
Friday 27 SeptemberMen's under-23 road race173.6km
Saturday 28 SeptemberWomen's elite and U23 road race154.1km
Sunday 29 SeptemberMen's elite road race273.9km

Dates: 21-29 September 2024
Events: 11
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
TV Coverage (UK): Eurosport/Discovery+, BBC

The 2024 UCI Road World Championships is taking place in Zürich, Switzerland, the largest city in the country, with events taking place over nine days.

This is the 97th edition of the event, which now sees 12 rainbow jerseys will be awarded across the different categories. It is also the first time the Para-cycling Road World Championships will be contested at the same time, with a further 24 jerseys on the line.

The battles for the rainbow bands begins with para-cycling time trials on the Saturday - 21 September - with the elite time trials following on Sunday, 22 September. There are 12 separate road events, with the under-23 women's road race combined with the elite road race for a second year.

Grace Brown won the first elite medal of the Worlds, storming to time trial victory, before Remco Evenepoel also doubled up on his Olympic success in the men's TT. Among the other big stories of the Worlds so far are Cat Ferguson winning the women's junior TT and then winning the junior road race, and Sarah Storey winning yet another para-cycling rainbow jersey.

Many of the races take place around the Zürich city circuit, a 26.8km loop with 447m of elevation, with almost all the road races finishing with differing numbers of laps of this, and the mixed relay TTT also using this.

The events are spread throughout the week, with the finalé coming on the final weekend, with the women's elite road racing on Saturday 28 September, and then the men's elite edition coming the next day.

Read our route guides to the time trials and road races and contenders to watch.

Last 10 World Championships winners

2013:
WE TT Ellen van Dijk
ME TT Tony Martin
MU23 TT Damien Howson
WJ ITT Séverine Eraud
MJ ITT Igor Decraene
MJ RR Mathieu van der Poel
MU23 RR Matej Mohorič
WJ RR Amalie Dideriksen
WE RR Marianne Vos
ME RR Rui Costa

2014:
WE TT Lisa Brennauer
ME TT Bradley Wiggins
MU23 TT Campbell Flakemore
WJ ITT Macey Stewart
MJ ITT Lennard Kämna
MJ RR Jonas Bokeloh
MU23 RR Sven Erik Byrstrøm
WJ RR Amalie Dideriksen
WE RR Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
ME RR Michał Kwiatkowski

2015:
WE TT Linda Villumsen
ME TT Vasil Kiryienka
MU23 TT Mads Würtz Schmidt
WJ ITT Chloe Dygert
MJ ITT Leo Appelt
MJ RR Felix Gall
MU23 RR Kévin Ledanois
WJ RR Chloe Dygert
WE RR Elizabeth Deignan
ME RR Peter Sagan

2016:
WE TT Amber Neben
ME TT Tony Martin
MU23 TT Marco Mathis
WJ ITT Karlijn Swinkels
MJ ITT Brandon McNulty
MJ RR Jakob Egholm
MU23 RR Kristoffer Halvorsen
WJ RR Elisa Balsamo
WE RR Amalie Dideriksen
ME RR Peter Sagan

2017:
WE TT Annemiek van Vleuten
ME TT Tom Dumoulin
MU23 TT Mikkel Bjerg
WJ ITT Elena Pirrone
MJ ITT Tom Pidcock
MJ RR Julius Johanesen
MU23 RR Benoît Cosnefroy
WJ RR Elena Pirrone
WE RR Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
ME RR Peter Sagan

2018:
WE TT Annemiek van Vleuten
ME TT Rohan Dennis
MU23 TT Mikkel Bjerg
WJ ITT Rozemarijn Ammerlaan
MJ ITT Remco Evenepoel
MJ RR Remco Evenepoel
MU23 RR Marc Hirschi
WJ RR Laura Stigger
WE RR Anna van der Breggen
ME RR Alejandro Valverde

2019:
WE TT Chloe Dygert
ME TT Rohan Dennis
MU23 TT Mikkel Bjerg
WJ ITT Aigul Gareeva
MJ ITT Antonio Tiberi
MR TTT Netherlands
MJ RR Quinn Simmons
MU23 RR Samuele Battistella
WJ RR Megan Jastrab
WE RR Annemiek van Vleuten
ME RR Mads Pedersen

2020:
WE TT Anna van der Breggen
ME TT Filippo Ganna
WE RR Anna van der Breggen
ME RR Julian Alaphilippe

2021:
WE TT Ellen van Dijk
ME TT Filippo Ganna
MU23 TT Johan Price-Pejtersen
WJ ITT Alena Ivanchenko
MJ ITT Gustav Wang
MR TTT Germany
MJ RR Per Strand Hagenes
MU23 RR Filippo Baroncini
WJ RR Zoe Bäckstedt
WE RR Elisa Balsamo
ME RR Julian Alaphilippe

2022:
WE TT Ellen van Dijk
ME TT Tobias Foss
MU23 TT Søren Wærenskjold
WJ ITT Zoe Bäckstedt
MJ ITT Joshua Tarling
MR TTT Switzerland
MJ RR Emil Herzog
MU23 RR Yevgeniy Fedorov
WJ RR Zoe Bäckstedt
WU23 RR Niamh Fisher-Black
WE RR Annemiek van Vleuten
ME RR Remco Evenepoel

2023
WE TT Chloe Dygert
ME TT Remco Evenepoel
MU23 TT Lorenzo Milesi
WJ ITT Felicity Wilson-Haffenden
MJ ITT Oscar Chamberlain
MR TTT Switzerland
MJ RR Albert Withen Philipsen
MU23 RR Axel Laurance
WJ RR Julie Bego
WU23 RR Niamh Fisher-Black
WE RR Lotte Kopecky
ME RR Mathieu van der Poel

2024
WE TT Grace Brown
ME TT Remco Evenepoel
MU23 TT Iván Romeo
WJ ITT Cat Ferguson
MJ ITT Paul Seixas
MR TTT Australia
MJ RR Lorenzo Finn
MU23 RR
WJ RR Cat Ferguson
WU23 RR
WE RR
ME RR

(WE TT: Women's elite time trial; ME TT: Men's elite time trial; MU23 TT: Men's under-23 time trial; WJ TT: Women's junior time trial; MJ TT: Men's junior time trial; MR TTT: Mixed relay team time trial; MJ RR: Men's junior road race; MU23 RR: Men's under-23 road race; WJ RR: Women's junior road race; WU23 RR: Women's under-23 road race; WE RR: Women's elite road race; ME RR: Men's elite road race)

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Adam Becket
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Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW in 2021 he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

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