Zwift will provide a virtual venue for the first UCI Esports World ♐Championships in December
Indoor cycling is perhaps the most exhausting eSports discipl🌃ine available(Image credit: Zwift)
To celebrate the year in which 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:indoor cycling and virtual racing has become an integral part of cycling, the UCI has now sanc꧙tioned an oไfficial World Championship.
Partnering with Zwift as the official virtual platform, the UCI Zwift Cycling Esports World Championships is scheduled for 9th December, amid the northern hemisphere winter - which is appropriately timed for the initial peak of most indoor/168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Zwift training plans.
There will both a men’s and women’s elite category, racing the same Zwift Watopia Figure 8 reverse course. For those familiar with Zwift’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Watopia challenges, the World Championships will finish♛ on the KOM Forward climb, a 900-metre climb that averages 5.5 per cent, which could deliver an exciting outcome in the last few hundred m🐼eters.
In terms of the race parℱcours, the virtual World Championships will be run over 50km with 483m of total elevation.
The UCI is due to revไeal its new virtual racing rainbow jersey design and rider start sheets in the coming weeks.
All the elite-level riders participating in this event will be on the same 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Garmin-Tacx NEO 2T smart turbo trainer to ens🌊ure standardisation. Shimano is the drivetrain partner for this event, whilst Science in Sport is the nutritional affiliate.
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“There&rsquoꦍ;s no doubt that we are going to make history in December”, says Eric Min, Zwift CEO. “This will be the first esports World Championship to be officially recognised by a sporting governing body, and it’s one that embodies all the values of traditional sport.”
Toyota South Africa has taken a position as the non-cycling affiliated event sponsor. The company’s South African business unit CEO, Andrew Kirby, is a finisher of the gruelling 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cape Epic mountain bike race.
Lance🌠 Branquiꦓnho is a Namibian born media professional, with 15-years of experience in technology and engineering journalism covering anything with wheels. Being from Namibia, he knows a good gravel road when he sees one, and he has raced some of Africa’s best-known mountain bike stage races, such as Wines2Wales and Berg&Bush.
