The Women Elite - including Women Under 23 – will set off from Loch Lomond and ride a 62.6 km route to Glasgow before tackling six laps of the city circuit, for a total race distance of 157.4 km and 1,930 m of climbing. In total, they will cover 277.6 km with 3,167 metres of climbing. The Men Elite road race will start in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, at the dormant volcano Arthur’s Seat, then progress through the city’s old town before heading to Glasgow and 10 laps of the final city circuit. The Junior road races will take place entirely in Glasgow. Add in a strong Dutch team with former world champions Marianne Vos and Thalita de Jong, and it's guaranteed to be a race for the ages.The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the organisers of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships today revealed the routes of the event’s road races.Įdinburgh and Loch Lomond will be the starting points for the Elite and Under 23 categories of the road races at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships taking place in Glasgow and across Scotland next year. Defending champion Sanne Cant has been the most consistent, sharing hard-fought races with Katie Compton, Katlin Antonneau, Helen Wyman, Nikki Brammeier and more recently, mountain bikers Eva Lechner, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Katerina Nash. The women's race is just the opposite, with at least 10 riders with a strong chance of winning. In the men's race, Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel, the dominant rider of the season, is the overwhelming favourite, with only Belgian Wout van Aert in the picture as a rival. With heavy rains soaking the course in the week leading up to the races, the mud is thick, and with plenty of climbing and tricky sections, the course is going to be one for the strongest and most technically adept riders. The 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships take place for the first time in Valkenburg on the classic Cauberg cross course which is sure to put the riders and their gear through the paces.
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