A calendar of twenty-two races had been confirmed for the 2024 Trek UCI Gravel World Sequence, expanded subsequent yr with one new entry in Africa and 5 new stops throughout Europe.
Now in its third yr, the collection is a world grouping of qualifier races for the UCI Gravel World Championships, hosted collectively by Belgium cities Halle and Leuven from October 5-6, 2024. At every spherical of the World Sequence, the quickest 25% of women and men throughout various age teams and an elite discipline qualify for the season-ending competitors for rainbow stripes.
{Qualifications} start on October 28 of this yr at Gravelista in Western Australia, after which the calendar resumes in April with three occasions. Gravelista will return in late October in 2024, and outcomes will rely towards qualification for the 2025 UCI Worlds.
Wörthersee Gravel in Austria is a brand new addition to the sector of occasions, main off the spring calendar on April 7. Different new races throughout Europe embody Hegau Gravel Pageant in Germany on June 29-30, Brwydr Y Graean (Battle on the Gravel) in Wales on July 6-7, Natur Land Race in Andorra on September 8 in addition to an occasion at Sea Otter Europe in Spain on September 21.
Sea Otter Europe will probably be held in Girona for an eighth time in 2024 and has included a Canyon Girona Gravel Experience in previous years. That occasion within the coronary heart of the Gavarres provides routes of 125km and 79km, and is predicted to be the race for the World Sequence.
The continent of Africa provides a second race to the calendar to the prevailing Swartberg 100 Gran Fondo in April with The Safari Gravel Occasion in Naivasha, Kenya on June 16.
Throughout the calendar, Australia and North America additionally host a pair of returning occasions, with SEVEN returning to Nannup on Could 11 after the kick-off occasion at Gravelista. In June throughout Canada and the USA, Blue Mountains Gravel Fondo in Ontario takes place the weekend previous to Highlands Gravel Basic in Arkansas.
In 2022 the UCI officially-sanctioned the worldwide gravel collection, and World Championships, which added the tenth self-discipline to the worldwide federation’s occasions. Gravel joins street, mountain bike, monitor, cyclo-cross, BMX, BMX freestyle, trials, indoor biking, and e-sport on the checklist of sanctioned disciplines. The collection. is managed by Belgian sports activities advertising and marketing company Golazo.
UCI Gravel World Sequence 2024 calendar
- April 7 – Wörthersee Gravel, Velden am Wörthersse, Austria
- April 20 – La Indomable, Berja, Spain
- April 27 – Swartberg 100 Gran Fondo, Prince Albert, South Africa
- April 28 – Gravel Fondo Limburg, Valkenburg, Netherlands
- Could 11 – SEVEN, Nannup, Australia
- Could 12 – 3RIDES Gravel Race, Aachen, Germany
- Could 18 – The Gralloch, Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland, UK
- June 15 – Blue Mountains Gravel Fondo, Thornbury, Ontario, Canada
- June 16 – Want One Millau Grands Causses, Millau, France
- June 16 – The Safari Gravel Occasion, Naivasha, Kenya
- June 22 – Highlands Gravel Basic, Fayetteville, Arkansas
- June 29-30 – Hegau Gravel Pageant, Singen, Germany
- July 6-7 – Brwydr Y Graean, Ruthin, Wales, UK
- July 13 – Gravel One Fifty, Roden, Netherlands
- July 20 – Gravel Journey 2024, Świeradów-Zdrój, Poland
- August 17 – Gravel Grit N Grind, Halmstad, Sweden
- August 24 – Houffa Gravel, Houffalize, Belgium
- August 31 – La Monsterrato Gravel Race, Quattordio, Italy
- September 8 – Natur Land Race Andorra, Sant Juliá de Loria, Andorra
- September 21 – Sea Otter Europe, Girona, Spain
- October 25-27 – Gravelista, Beechworth, Australia