UCI Cyclocross World Championships 2023 overview

When are the UCI Cyclocross World Championships: February 3-5, 2023

Where are the UCI Cyclocross World Championships: Hoogerheide, Netherlands

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The latest results from the UCI Cyclocross World Championships 2023

Mathieu van der Poel sprints past Wout van🌳 Aert to clinch fifth Cyclocross Worlds crown

Mathieu van der Poel (Ne♉therlands) outsprinted rival Wout van Aert (Belgium) at the end of 10 laps and a tense 67 minutes of racing win the elite men's race at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Hoogerheide. Van Aert🍸, who descꦚribed almost forgetting his final sprint, settled for second for the fourth time.

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Day 3: Mathieu van der Poel sprints past Wout van Aert to clinch fifth Cyclocross World Championships crown

Day 3: Dominant Van Anrooij wins U23 women's title at Cyclocross World Championships

Day 3: Léo Bisiaux scores junior men's title at Cyclocross World Championships

Day 2: Fem van Empel storms to elite women's title at Cyclocross World Championships

Day 2: Thibau Nys takes solo win in U23 men's race at Cyclocross Worlds

Day 2: Isabella Holmgren wins junior women's cyclocross world title

Day 1: Netherlands take home victory in team relay at 2023 Cyclo-cross World Championships

UCI Cyclocross World Championships 2023 information

After a year's hiatus from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Cyclocross World Championships, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) will revive their long-time rivalry in the elite men's race after seven straig🔜ht seasons of trading rainbow jers༺eys.

In 2022, it was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock who claimed the title in their absence, but now the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Briton is the one missing Worlds, choosing instead to focus on preparing for the Classics with his road team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ineos Grenadiers.

Van der Poel has four titles to Van Aert's three, and despite the two riders racing a limited cyclocross campaign, they've dominated almost every race they've entered. Van Aert has been the most consistent this season, never finishing lower than second and winning nine races. His four defeats of 13 starts have been to Van der Poel (Antwerp, Gavere, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Herentals and Benidorm).

Van der Poel, meaꦇnwhile, has six wins and 12 total podium finishes, only missing the top three in the snowy Val di Sole World Cup and his second r♌ace of the season in Boom.

Neither rider leads the UCI rankings - that honour goes to World Cup overall winner Laurens Sweeck (Cr♛eland-💫Fristads) who has had a standout season. But Sweeck and the other full-time racers, European champion Michael Vanthourenhout and Bingoal-Pauwels Sauzen teammate Eli Iserbyt have paled in comparison to the two titans.

The elite women's field has also been lopsided this year, but 🐎rather than the established stars it has been the under-23 riders who have newly stepped up to the elites that have dominated.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fem van Empel (Jumbo-Visma) claimed the most victories this season with 13, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was second with nine, and Van Anrooij had six, an🌳d between them, the three riders took all of the World Cup victories.

It might have been a different season if 2021 World Champion Lucinda 𒀰Brand (Baloise Trek) hadn't broken🅰 her hand before Tabor, or if defending champion Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) wasn't 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:struggling with an obstructed artery in her ab꧋domen, but few riders have been able to challenge Van Emp♕el, Pieterse and Van Anrooij.

From the other fields, new champions will be crowned for the juniors and under-23 women since the 2022 winners 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Zoe Bäckstedt, Jan Christen and Pieterse havꩲe moved up one category. Only under-23 men's Joran Wyseure 🌄(Belgium) will return to defend in the same category.

Bäckstedt would have been the main favourite for under-23 women, had Van Anrooij not opted to remain in that category. A fourth place in the Be🗹sançon World Cup behind Pieter൩se, Annemarie Worst and Inge van der Heijden showed the Briton's class. However, she has come up short against Van Anrooij, two years her senior, this season.

In the junior men's field, all bets are off. ꧑France's Léo Bisiaux, Belgian champion Viktor Vandenberghe and compatriots Seppe Van den Boer and Yordi Corsus, Dutchman Guus van den Eijnden and even American AJ August - winner of the Koppenbergcross - are all contenders𒊎.

The junior women's field is equally unpredictable although Dutch rider Lౠauren Molengraaf, Belgian Fleur Moors anꦛd Canada's Isabella Holmgren are solid bets.

For under-23 men, expect Thibau Nys (Belgium) to go for broke and be challenged by Besançon winner Tibor Del Grosso (Netherlands) and, should he falter, any of his Bꦜelgian teammates.

In the team relay, the Dutch have the cards stacked in their favour with Fem van Empe𒅌l and Ryan Kamp along with Van den Eijnden, Leonie Bentveld 🐲and Molengraaf and Del Grosso.

The races

The 2023 UCI Cyclocross World Championships begin Friday, February 3, with the first title run for the Team Relay, which was put on as a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:test event in Fayetteville last year. The Italia🗹ns claimed the victory in 2022 and return with bib #1 in a slightly different format, with teams of six riders (three men, three women) instead of four.

In the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cyclocross Team Relay, riders each complete one lap of the course an🌸d enter a relay zone, where they must touch the next rider before they can start their lap. Teams can ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚchoose the order of their riders, with the team represented by one rider from each category: Men/Women Junior, Under-23 and Elite.

At least five countries must participate in order for world titles to be awarded. This 🅰seas🅘on, 10 teams have registered: Italy, USA, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Poland, Great Britain, France, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Races for Junio🐽r Women, Under-23 Men and Elite Women take place on Saturday, February 4, while Junior M🌜en, Under-23 Women and Elite Men duke it out in Hoogerheide on Sunday, February 5.

The route

The Hoogerheide course is a classic, having hosted UCI Cyclocross World Cup ꦛrounds almost every year since 2003 except when the World Championships were held there in 2009 and 2014.

Read more about the U𒈔CI Cyclocross World Championship course in Hoogerheide.

The stakes

Prize money is equal for men𒈔 and women at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships. The team relay award📖s rainbow jerseys and €15000 for first, €7500 for second and €3750 for third.

The top three in the elite race earn €5000, €2500 and &eu🍸ro;1250. Under-23s earn  €2500, €1250 and €675. Juniors take home €1250, €675 and €340.

The UCI Cyclocross World Championships will be broadcast live around Europe and the rest of the world – you can find out how to watch the race wherever you are with our handy guide and with ExpressVPN.

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