The second version of the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships occurred over the weekend, working from Le Bandie to Pieve di Soligo in Veneto, Italy.
Gravel privateers and highway professionals combined it within the peloton on Saturday and Sunday with the latter popping out on prime as Kasia Niewiadoma (Poland) and Matej Mohorič (Slovenia) prevailed with long-range solo efforts.
The racing motion dropped at the fore a variety of storylines and speaking factors, from the aforementioned professional domination to the shortage of ladies’s TV protection, the Worlds’ place within the calendar, and the way highway professionals coped with a brand new expertise.
Cyclingnews was on the bottom on the races to doc all of the motion through our complete gravel information and report protection. Photographers Les Morales and Chris Auld have been additionally in Veneto to seize all of the motion because it unfolded.
Right here, we current a collection of their finest photographs from each races on the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships. Get pleasure from!
Signal on time
Begin line of the 140km ladies’s elite race
The competitors for the rainbow jersey begins, with the sector cut up early
Sarah Sturm (USA) preventing on one of many climbs
Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) was a watched rider after her Gravel European Championships win however the steep climbs delivered an additional problem for the sprinter in Italy, however nonetheless she got here fifth
Kasia Niewiadoma attacked from the lead group, lastly going solo at about 20km to go
Silvia Persico (Italy) delivered a decided pursuit
As did Demi Vollering (Netherlands), with the pair coming to the end collectively however the Italian simply acquired her wheel over the road first
It was, nevertheless, a solo victory with time to have a good time for an elated Kasia Niewiadoma who swept up her first UCI victory since 2019 and a rainbow jersey in her very first gravel race
Kasia Niewiadoma all smiles after successful the Gravel World Championships
Kasia Niewiadoma seated on the end line answering questions from the press
Demi Vollering after coming third
Demi Vollering congratulates an elated Kasia Niewiadoma
Then it was podium celebrations for Niewiadoma (first), Persico (second) and Vollering (third)
Silver medallist Silvia Persico, world champion Kasia Niewiadoma, and bronze medallist Demi Vollering
The boys’s peloton get their race underway on Sunday
Crew USA put together forward of the race
A chase group traverses a gravel sector throughout the race
The dust and the hassle of the day confirmed on the rider’s faces
Eventual winner Matej Mohorič leads the way in which on the head of the race
Battling throughout the gravel in Veneto required an enormous quantity of effort
The mud kicked up from the gravel roads colored each rider’s jersey and face
Followers lined the path to assist the racers over the tough gravel sectors
The leaders out in entrance on the highway to the end
Veteran racer Alejandro Valverde was in motion again among the many professionals
Nice Britain’s Connor Swift leads the way in which en path to his podium place
Belgian Wout van Aert endured a tricky time out, affected by mechanical troubles
Riders battled on the course in ones and twos
Mohoric prevailed in the long run with a solo experience
Florian Vermeersch took second place for Belgium
Swift rounded out the rostrum in third place
The rostrum trio have a good time their accomplishments after the race
There was time after the end for followers to get a photograph with their idols, too
Mohoric, the brand new world champion, sprays the champagne
