The 2027 World Championships will take place in Haute-Savoie, announced the UCI during its congress on the sidelines of the Worlds in Wollongong. France and the Netherlands were the two countries in the running to win these “Super World Championships”, bringing together all the disciplines of cycling each pre-Olympic year.
This expanded format will thus offer 13 disciplines next year in Glasgow, Scotland, and will increase to 19 disciplines in 2027 during the World Championships which will take place from September 11 to 26 in Haute-Savoie where the Mountain Bike World Championships met with a large success this summer in Les Gets.
The Road World Championships will thus take place for the first time in France since those organized in 2000 in Plouay. The queen event, the road race, will take place on a course which will be the copy-and-paste of that of the 1980 Worlds won by Bernard Hinault, on a circuit taking the ascent of the mythical Côte de Domancy (2.7 km to more than 8% on average).
The French and Dutch candidacies were decided by a vote of the UCI Management Committee which met on Tuesday and Wednesday and which also designated Montreal as the organizing city of the 2026 World Cycling Championships on the road, one after Rwanda and two years after Switzerland.
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