2022 UCI GRAN FONDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Trento, Italy

WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER

09.00 – 18.00 Registration and race pack collection

10.00 – 12.00 Preliminary time trial bike check

14.00 – 15.00 Riders briefing for Individual Time Trial

15.00 – 17.00 Preliminary time trial check

THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER

09.00 – 11.30 Individual Time Trial

14.00 – 16.30 Individual Time Trial

09.00 – 18.00 Registration and race pack collection

18.30 Individual Time Trial podium ceremony

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER

09.00 – 18.00 Registration and race pack collection

14.00 – 15.00 Riders briefing for Team Relay event

19.00 – 20.00 Team Relay event

20.00 Team Relay podium ceremony

20.00 World Cycling Dinner at Gallerie di Piedicastello

SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER

09.00 – 18.00 Registration and race pack collection

14.00 – 15.00 Riders briefing for Gran/Medio Fondo road races

SUNDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER

10.00 – 16.30 2022 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships

13.30 Pasta Party

16.30 Podium ceremonies and awarding of rainbow jerseys

INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL

Thursday 15 September starting/finishing from Piazza delle Donne Lavoratrici with a distance of 19.6km. All bikes will be checked to verify UCI standards are met before each rider starts. 30 second starting intervals will be used with older Women categories first and youngest Men last. The race course will not be accessible to riders after 08:00 and turbo trainers will be available at the start from 07:30, for maximum time of 20 minutes per rider. Drafting is forbidden; any riders not obeying this rule will be disqualified. When overtaking a rider, you must ensure a distance of 2m separates both riders, and the overtaken rider must the leave a gap of 25m behind the passing rider.

TEAM RELAY

This “for fun” and non-official World Championship 4-person national team relay event on Friday 16 September is open to all athletes who are registered for the time trial and/or Gran Fondo/Medio Fondo. The course is inside the new quartier “Le Albere,” with each team member completing 3 laps of a 2km circuit, before passing the relay to the next rider of the team. A maximum of 25 teams will be allowed to race. Medals will be awarded.

GRAN FONDO AND MEDIO FONDO

Sunday 18 September will start with the 143.8km (+3900m) gran fondo categories, followed by the 86.8km 2(+2218m) medio fondo categories. Starting pens will be open 30 minutes before the start of each category. The first row of each start group is reserved for the age group winners of the qualifier events and defending world champions, who will be able to access the first row from the sidewalk 7 minutes before their respective start.

The course will be completely closed to traffic starting from behind the “first lead” vehicle, until the last “end of race” broom wagon vehicle, approximately a one hour gap. Riders falling behind the broom wagon will not be riding on a closed course and must obey all traffic laws.

Photos: UCI GF World Championships Trento 2022