The Trek UCI Gravel World Sequence has expanded even additional than initially anticipated in 2024, with current additions to the calendar in Africa, Switzerland and Italy taking the entire variety of occasions within the collection – together with the Gravel World Championships – as much as 25.
It is also not the one change to the collection that delivers the highest 25 per cent of riders in every class the chance to race on the Gravel World Championships. Organisers have introduced that there’ll now be a minimal lap distance of 40km for native loop races launched, plus an elite class.
There have been sixteen occasions within the collection for 2023 however with the extra races, plus the European Championships and World Championships from this yr additionally performing as qualifiers for the 2024 rainbow race, the alternatives to pursue a spot on the beginning line of the World Championships in Belgium on Saturday October 5 and 6 have expanded significantly.
“Gravel is booming, and its reputation was demonstrated on the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships in Veneto, Italy, final October when lots of of age-group riders competed on the identical course because the Elite,” stated the UCI Gravel World Sequence media assertion.
Many additions had already been flagged in an earlier 2024 calendar launch – with new occasions for 2024 together with Wörthersee Gravel in Austria, Hegau Gravel Competition in Germany, Brwydr Y Graean in Wales, Sea Otter Europe in Spain and Safari Gravel Occasion in Naivasha, Kenya.
Nonetheless, there have been much more races added with the most recent announcement. They embrace Tugende Gravel in Kigali – with the Rwandan occasion including a 3rd possibility in Africa – Gravel Suisse and likewise the Giro Sardegna Gravel, which delivers a second probability to qualify in Italy.
The collection rounds that may act as qualifiers for the 2024 World Championships have already begun. with Connor Sens and Courtney Sherwell taking out victory at Australia’s Beechworth Gravelista race in October and the primary chief’s jerseys.
The collection – which has nearly all of rounds in Europe however branches out with a number of races in Australia, Africa and North America – now hits the pause button till racing resumes at Wörthersee Gravel in Austria on April 7, whereas Sea Otter Europe in Girona will present the final qualifying spherical on September 21. The primary 25 per cent of riders in every age class qualify, in addition to the primary three riders, whatever the variety of starters in that age group.
UCI Gravel World Sequence 2024 calendar
- October 28, 2023 – Gravelista, Beechworth, Australia
- April 7, 2024 – Wörthersee Gravel, Velden am Wörthersee, Austria
- April 20, 2024 – La Indomable, Berja, Spain
- April 25, 2024 – Giro Sardegna Gravel, Orosei, Italy
- April 27, 2024 – Swartberg 100, Prince Albert, South Africa
- April 27, 2024 – Highlands Gravel Traditional, Fayetteville, USA
- April 28, 2024 – Gravel Fondo Limburg, Valkenburg, Netherlands
- Could 11, 2024 – SEVEN, Nannup, Australia
- Could 12, 2024 – 3RIDES Gravel Race, Aachen, Germany
- Could 18, 2024 – The Gralloch, Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland, UK
- June 1, 2024 – Gravel Problem Blaavands Huk, Blaavands, Denmark
- June 9, 2024 – Tugende Gravel, Kigali, Rwanda
- June 15, 2024 – Blue Mountains Gravel Fondo, Thornbury, Canada
- June 16, 2024 – The Safari Gravel Occasion, Naivasha, Kenya
- June 16, 2024 – Want One Millau Grands Causses, Millau, France
- June 30, 2024 – Hegau Gravel Competition, Singen, Germany
- July 6, 2024 – Gravel Suisse, Villars, Switzerland
- July 6, 2024 – Brwydr y Graean, Ruthin, UK
- July 13, 2024 – Gravel One Fifty, Roden, Netherlands
- July 20, 2024 – Gravel Journey, Świeradów-Zdrój, Poland
- August 17, 2024 – Gravel Grit N Grind, Halmstad, Sweden
- August 24, 2024 – Houffa Gravel, Houffalize, Belgium
- August 31, 2024 – La Monsterrato Gravel Race, Quattordio, Italy
- September 21, 2024 – Sea Otter Europe, Girona, Spain
- October 5&6, 2024 – UCI Gravel World Championships, Halle-Leuven, Belgium
* 2023 Gravel European Championships additionally acts as a qualifying spherical for the 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships
