First edition of UCI Gravel World Championships to be held in Tuscany
October event to b♌e held on same gravel roads as the L’Eroica ride

Cyclingnews can reveal that the inaugural edition of the UCI 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gravel World Championships will be held in Tuscany, Italy, with the racing on many of the same gravel roads or strade bianche as the famous 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:L’Eroica ride on vintage bikes near Gaiole in Chianti and Siena i🎃n central Italy.
The Gravel World Championships in Tuscany are likely to be held in mid-October, perhaps a week after the 25th edition of L’Eroica and after the inaugural 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Gravel World Series.
Details of the 14-event UCI Gravel World Series emerged this week, with Cyclingnews understanding a formal announcemeಞnt of the series is expecte𝕴d soon, once the final details have been agreed with the UCI. The UCI awarded the management of the UCI Gravel World Series to Belgian events company Golazo.
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Gravel World Series will apparently be sponsored by Trek and begins on April 3, 2022 in the Philippines. The Jingle GX Gravel Race in Iowa on September 24 will be the last of the events. No major events from established gravel events in the USA were named for the inaugural year of the UCI World Series, including Garmin Gravel Worlds in Nebrꦇaska but five UCI Gravel World Series events will be held in the USA.
There have been reports that the first Gravel World Championships would be held in the USA but after a series of meetings, considerations and offers, Cyclingnews understands that Tusc🐼any has been selected. The event will be funded by sponsorship with t꧑he UCI receiving a significant fee from the organisers as it does with other world championships.
The founder of L’Eroica, Giancarlo Brocci, first offered to host the UCI Gravel World Championships in Tuscany in 2020 when he travell✃ed to UCI headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland to meet UCI president David Lappartient.
Brocci refused to confirm that Tuscany would host the UCI Gravel World Championships when contacted by Cyclingnews but has aওlw꧑ays argued it would be the ideal place for such an event.
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"I can’t think of a better place for it than here in Tuscany on our strade bianche gravel roads that inspired the original Eroica event," Brocci told Cyclingnews in 2020.
"We've created s🤡omething special with L'Eroica and our events around the world, so I think Eroica can help gravel racing, too. We've got a proven record at organising events and I think we'd be able to put on a great World Championships and a great event."
The Eroica series now includes events around the world and has been copied many times, inspiring the wider gravel movement. Other modern Eroica events have been added to the calendar, with Nova Eroica in late April covering many of the same Tuscan strade bianche or white roads but on modern gravel bikes. Th💎e Strade Bianche professional races were created after the success of L’Eroica and riding on the Tuscan gravel roads has become a year-ro𝔉und attraction for many cyclists.
"Some people call it gravel, I prefer to call it Eroico (Heroic) because for me it's about going back to the roots and core beliefs of cycling and away from the modern robotic sport that has developed. I'm not looking back; I want to help the sport move forwards,” Brocci told Cyclingnews.