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WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series 2025 Schedule Announced - MTB WC Araxá

WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series 2025 Schedule Announced

The dates, locations, and rounds for the 2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series have been revealed, featuring a new venue and the return of fan-favorite locations.

The 2025 season will span seven months with 16 race weekends, including ten UCI World Cup Cross-country and Downhill Events and eight UCI World Cup Enduro rounds.

The 2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series calendar has been confirmed. The third year of the renewed UCI World Cup format, launched in 2023 to unify all major formats under a single brand for the first time, will visit ten countries across 15 rounds (16 race weekends) between April and October, featuring top athletes in the Endurance (Olympic Cross Country, XCO, and Cross Country Short Track, XCC) and Gravity (Downhill, DHI, and Enduro, EDR) disciplines.

Full 2025 Season Schedule (Credit: Press Release)

After starting with consecutive double rounds, featuring two XCO and XCC stages over two weekends in Brazil’s cross-country round in Araxá – Minas Gerais, the Gravity action begins with the UCI Enduro World Cup in the spiritual home of the format, Pietra Ligure – Finale Outdoor Region (Italy), before Downhill joins a week later at Enduro Trails – Bielsko-Biała (Poland). The rounds in Pietra Ligure and Bielsko-Biała kick off five consecutive racing weekends that mark the return of Loudenvielle-Peyragudes (France) for Gravity formats, as well as Nové Město Na Moravě (Czech Republic) for Endurance, followed by the first triple round XCO/XCC/DHI/EDR at a long-time partner location in Saalfelden Leogang – Salzburgerland (Austria).

The second half of the series introduces a completely new venue for the UCI World Cup in 2025 – Gravity races on the scenic trails of La Thuile – Valle d’Aosta, Italy, hosting the UCI Downhill and Enduro World Cup. A year after hosting XCO and XCC in its UCI World Cup debut in 2024, Mt Van Hoevenberg, in the Olympic Region of Lake Placid (New York, USA), will add a UCI Downhill World Cup in 2025.

The calendar also sees the return of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championship venue, Pal Arinsal (Andorra), and the UCI Mountain Bike Enduro and E-Enduro World Championship location, Val di Fassa – Trentino (Italy), along with the iconic Val di Sole bike park – Trentino (Italy), back-to-back weekends in Haute-Savoie, France (exact locations to be announced later), and Bike Kingdom in Lenzerheide (Switzerland), with the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championship in Valais held between them, and a fitting season finale at Mont-Sainte-Anne, the renowned Canadian round.

Chris Ball, Vice President of Cycling Events at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, said, “While I am excited to see the conclusion of this year’s WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series, the 2025 edition is shaping up to be the best season yet. We’re expanding again, welcoming La Thuile to the UCI World Cup family, while Lake Placid adds Downhill to its schedule, bringing the number of UCI Downhill World Cup rounds to ten. The calendar also brings back locations that had successful debuts in 2024, as well as iconic venues like Val di Fassa, Nové Město Na Moravě, and Mont-Sainte-Anne – a perfect combination of innovation and tradition,” praised Chris Ball.

“Regardless of their background, each round will take place at a venue at the pinnacle of mountain bike track design, ensuring thrilling, adrenaline-filled races from start to finish. The venues are also situated in communities passionate about mountain biking, with fans traveling from near and far to line the tracks and cheer on race day,” added Chris Ball.

UCI President David Lappartient said, “The WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series has already increased visibility for the mountain bike discipline, with more stages and more host locations than ever. In 2025, we will keep up the momentum with another new venue joining the Series. Starting in Brazil in April and ending in Canada after months of exciting racing, athletes and fans have much to look forward to in the coming season. It’s going to be another intense year of mountain bike racing!”

Rogério Bernardes, organizer of the Copa Internacional de Mountain Bike (CiMTB) and local representative for the two Brazilian rounds of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series, praised Araxá’s confirmation on the 2025 calendar with a double round, meaning two consecutive weekends of events.

“Not even in our dreams could we imagine it would be possible to hold two UCI Mountain Bike World Cup stages in Araxá in 2025. It’s surreal, achieved through immense dedication and commitment, which has earned global trust. Our goal is now on a different level, with huge challenges ahead. We’ll show the world our capacity to host large events with a double dose. These two stages will be unforgettable, demonstrating how we, from Araxá, Minas Gerais, and Brazil, have the ability to deliver fantastic events for mountain bike enthusiasts.”

2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series Calendar

  • Round 1 / April 3-6: Araxá – Minas Gerais, Brazil (UCI Cross-country World Cup)
  • Round 2 / April 10-12: Araxá – Minas Gerais, Brazil (UCI Cross-country World Cup)
  • Round 3 / May 9-11: Pietra Ligure – Finale Outdoor Region, Italy (UCI Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 4 / May 16-18: Enduro Trails – Bielsko-Biała, Poland (UCI Downhill and Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 5 / May 23-25: Nové Město Na Moravě, Czech Republic (UCI Cross-country World Cup)
  • Round 6 / May 30-June 1: Loudenvielle-Peyragudes, France (UCI Downhill and Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 7 / June 5-8: Saalfelden Leogang – Salzburgerland, Austria (UCI Cross-country, Downhill, and Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 8 / June 20-22: Val di Sole – Trentino, Italy (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cup)
  • Round 9 / June 27-29: Val di Fassa – Trentino, Italy (UCI Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 10 / July 3-6: La Thuile – Valle d’Aosta, Italy (UCI Downhill and Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 11 / July 9-13: Pal Arinsal – Andorra (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cup)
  • Round 12 / August 21-31: Haute-Savoie, France (UCI Cross-country, Downhill, and Enduro World Cup)
  • Round 13 / September 18-21: Bike Kingdom – Lenzerheide, Switzerland (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cup)
  • Round 14 / October 3-5: Lake Placid Olympic Region, New York, USA (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cup)
  • Round 15 / October 9-12: Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cup)

Media Contacts

  • Neus Ramos, Press Officer of WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series
  • Laura Cueto, Communications Manager at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe
  • Gustavo Coelho, CiMTB Press Office, press@cimtb.com.br

About the UCI Founded on April 14, 1900, in Paris, France, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is the worldwide governing body for cycling. It develops and oversees cycling in all its forms for everyone: as a competitive sport, a healthy recreational activity, a mode of transport, and for sheer fun. The UCI manages and promotes 11 cycling disciplines, including road, track, mountain bike, BMX Racing, BMX Freestyle, cyclocross, trials, indoor cycling, e-sports cycling, gravel, and snowbike. Five of these are part of the Olympic program (road, track, mountain bike, BMX Racing, and BMX Freestyle), two in the Paralympics (road and track), and four in the Youth Olympic Games (road, mountain bike, BMX Racing, and BMX Freestyle). For more information: www.uci.org

About Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe represents WBD’s portfolio of sports brands, channels, and platforms across Europe, collectively reaching 130 million people every month, engaging broad audiences across over 200 markets and in 20 languages across all consumer platforms: free-to-air TV, pay TV, streaming, online, and social. WBD Sports Europe includes the beloved consumer brands Eurosport and TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, as well as sports programming and content on WBD’s free-to-air networks and streaming on Max* and discovery+. They connect audiences with the world’s largest sports events, including being the Olympic Games’ home in Europe; tennis Grand Slams; cycling Grand Tours, with over 1,000 live cycling broadcasts each year; the UCI Track Champions League; the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series; the PGA TOUR all year round in select markets; The Ocean Race; the Snooker World Tour; the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

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