The first-ever combined UCI World Championships offers a total of 46 world titles across the disciplines of road, track and cross-country mountain bike racing held from August 3-13 in and around Glasgow.
Cyclingnews will keep you up-to-date with the gold, silver and bronze medal winners of each event in road, track and cross-country mountain bike throughout the 10 days of racing.
Road
The road racing kicked off this year with the Julie Bego capturing the junior women's road race title after a late-race solo attack to beat solo on the finishing circuits to beat Britain's Cat Ferguson and Belgium’s Fleur Moors. In the junior men's road race, Albert Philipsen of Denmark took a stunning solo win as Paul Fietzke (Germany) claimed silver and Felix Ørn-Kristoff (Norway) bronze.
In one of the most captivating performances this week, Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands soloed to victory in the elite men's road race despite a late crash. Wout van Aert of Belgian took silver, while Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) secured bronze.
The road events then turned to the Team Time Trial Mixed Relay where Switzerland overcame a crash to win the world title for a second year in a row, narrowly beating France and Germany.
The road events continued with the individual time trials from August 9-11, while the under-23 men's and elite/under-23 women's road races close out the World Championships on August 12-13.
Italy’s Lorenzo Milesi took a close victory in the under-23 men's individual time trial beating Belgium’s Alec Segaert and Australia's Hamish McKenzie.
France lead the haul with one gold and one silver, while Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland each have one gold. Belgium has two silver and one bronze, and Germany has one silver and one bronze, and Great Britain has a single silver medal. Australia, Norway, and Slovenia round out the medal table with one bronze apiece.
Track
American talent Chloé Dygert took the first world title of the Track World Championships on the opening day of racing at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, while Great Britain's William Tidball also took the world title in men's Scratch and Germany delivered a women's team sprint record.
On Day 2 of racing, American Jennifer Valente won the Scratch Race, Germany's Emma Hinze added to the gold-medal count in the 500m TT, and the Netherlands won the men's Team Sprint.
An exciting Day 3 saw Denmark and Great Britain claim the men's and women's Team Pursuit titles.
Italy’s Filippo Ganna won the elite men’s Individual Pursuit on Day 4 in a tight battle against Daniel Bigham (Great Britain). Belgium's Lotte Kopecky won the Elimination race, Ellesse Andrews claimed gold for New Zealand in the women's Keirin, and Iuri Leitao gave Portugal their first world title in track cycling in the men's Omnium.
Day 5 of track racing saw Great Britain capture the gold medals in both the women's Madison and men's Elimination Race, while Harrie Lavreysen won a fifth consecutive Sprint world title.
On Day 6 at the velodrome Lotte Kopecky secured another world title in the Points Race, Jeffrey Hoogland won the men's 1km TT, and the Netherlands staged a massive coup to win the men's Madison.
The host nation leads the track medals with eight - four gold, three silver and one bronze, with the Netherlands next with four gold and one silver. Germany have two gold, one silver and two bronze. After Belgium's frustrating miss in the men's Madison, they are next in line with three - Kopecky's two gold and one bronze.
Mountain Bike
The mountain biking events officially began with the Downhill at Fort William and Marathons from August 2-6. Following a three-day break the competition continued with the cross country categories of the men's and women's E-MTB on August 9 and the short track and Olympic cross country events from August 10-12 at Glentress Forest.
