Local organization of the event is already working intensely towards a true mountain bike festival that the municipality will host between March and April 2025
You know that feeling we often have that time flies by. This is how Araxaenses and also cycling lovers must be feeling with the confirmation that, for the second consecutive year, Araxá (MG) will host the MTB World Cup, entitled WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series. On the part of the local organization, the expectation is to repeat the great party that took place in April 2024, when the municipality received athletes from around 40 countries, 85% of them being members of the top 50 in the world ranking at the time, considering the best men and women.
The big news is that in 2025, Araxá will host a double round of the event held by Warner Bross Discovery (WBD) Europe. And what does this mean? On two different weekends, April 3rd to 6th and April 10th to 13th, the Grande Hotel Termas de Araxá will be packed with audiences from all over Brazil and abroad, who will closely follow the best athletes in the world. And this will happen right after the opening stage of CiMTB 2025, between March 28th and 30th, also in the same World Cup arena.
Start of the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Araxá 2024 (Credit: Alemão Silva/CiMTB)
“After doing some analysis of what the 2024 Araxá stage of the World Cup was like in sporting terms, we concluded that in the men’s stage we had 47 of the 50 best athletes in the world in action in the Minas Gerais stage. The women’s number was also significant, with 38 of the 50 athletes from the top 50. The expectation is that this number in 2025 will be closer to having the 100 best, considering the 50 best of each gender. There is no doubt that the sequence of events, made up of CiMTB and two stages of the World Cup. , which has already been called a bike festival, will be a success next year”, celebrated Tomás Mendes, Deputy Secretary of Sports of Minas Gerais.
Another survey carried out by the organization showed that holding two stages of the World Cup in Brazil was very beneficial for Brazilian athletes. Among 38 cyclists born in the country, who were part of the start list for the first two stages of the competition in 2024, 30 of them improved their rankings after the event period. Numbers that help reaffirm the importance of holding the event in Brazil.
2025 CiMTB Calendar and World Cup in Brazil:
CiMTB #1 – March 28th to 30th in Araxá (MG)
World Cup #1 – April 3rd to 6th, in Araxá (MG)
World Cup #2 – April 10th to 13th, in Araxá (MG)
CiMTB #2 – June 6th to 8th, in Poços de Caldas (MG)
CiMTB #3 – August 1st to 3rd, in Nova Lima (MG)
CiMTB #4 – September 26th to 28th, in Congonhas (MG)
The history of CiMTB
The CiMTB organization held its first race in 1996. Since then, it has been innovating and actively contributing to the growth and strengthening of mountain biking and the bicycle market in Brazil. Counting points for the International Cycling Union (UCI) world ranking since 2004, CiMTB has been selective for the Olympic Games in the Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 cycles.
In 2022, CiMTB further increased its international relevance, with the opening stage of the 2022 Mercedes-Benz Mountain Bike World Cup, in Petrópolis, and in 2024 it organized the Araxá stage of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series. Furthermore, he was responsible for building the mountain bike track for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, considered one of the best in the history of the Games since 1996, the first year of MTB at the Olympics.
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