France will host the World Cycling Championships in 2027

The Cycling World Championships will be held inHaute Savoy (France) in 2027as announced by the International Cycling Union (UCI) in its congress held on Thursday during the World Championships in Wollongong (Australia).

France and Holland are the two candidate countries for this “World Super Championships”.which will bring together every pre-Olympic year all cycling disciplines, from road to BMX, through track and mountain biking, including cycling for the disabled.

This expanded format will offer 13 disciplines next year in Glasgow, Scotland, increasing to 19 disciplines by 2027 at the World Championships to be held from September 11 to 26 in Haute-Savoie, where the MTB World Championships were a success this summer in Les Gets.

“It is a great pleasure for French cycling, which will put all the lights on our sport. My ambition is for it to be at the same level as a rugby World Cup or a European Football Championship,” Michel Callot, president of the French Cycling Federation (FFC), told AFP.

He also welcomed the return to France of the World Road Championships as part of the “Super Mondiales”, which will be held for the first time since the 2000 edition in Plouay.

The main test, the road race, will take place on a route that will be a carbon copy of the 1980 World Championshipswon by Bernard Hinault, on a circuit that included climbing the legendary Domancy hill (2.7 km at an average of more than 8%).

The French and Dutch candidates were separated by a vote of the UCI Management Committee, which met on Tuesday and Wednesday and also designated Montreal as the venue for the 2026 Road World Championships, one after Rwanda and two years after Switzerland.

However, the French candidate did not have the unanimous support of Haute-Savoiein which several appeals were filed, the first of which was rejected by the administrative court of Grenoble, by a group of associations and elected environmentalists denouncing “a project of the 20th century”.