UCI Road
World Championships
return to
the United States in 2015
The International Cycling Union’s
Management Committee met today in Copenhagen, Denmark on the occasion of the
2011 UCI Road World Championships. During its
third annual meeting, the UCI Management Committee awarded the 2015 UCI
Road World Championships to Richmond, Virginia (USA).
The UCI President, Mr. Pat McQuaid,
welcomed the decision « which is part of the globalisation process in
cycling and which will allow the American continent, where our sport is
enjoying an impressive development, to once again host the most important event
of the UCI calendar, twelve years after the Canadian edition in the town of
Hamilton”.
The UCI Road
World Championships had been held previously in the United States in 1986 in
Colorado Springs.
The UCI Management Committee also
awarded the following events:
2012 World Championships “UCI World
Cycling Tour Final”:
Pietermaritzburg (RSA)
2014 UCI Juniors Track Cycling World
Championships:
Seoul (KOR)
2014 UCI Road
World Championships:
Ponferrada (ESP)
The UCI Management Committee also
ratified the 2012 calendars for MTB,
BMX Supercross UCI, Trials, Indoor Cycling, Paracycling and UWCT which
will be available on-line tomorrow on
www.uci.ch.
Further the UCI Management Committee
acknowledged the 2012 UCI WorldTour calendar, as approved by the Professional
Cycling Council the previous day. As 2012 is an Olympic year the following
changes have exceptionally been made, further to the requests of the respective
organizers:
Tour de Pologne : July 10 – 16
Clasica San Sebastian : August 14
Further the Tour of Beijing will be
raced on the October 10 - 14, and the Giro di Lombardia on October
20.
The UCI Management Committee endorsed
the composition of the Athletes’ Commission, further to a decision taken in
2010 to create this body. The Members have been either elected by a voting
process organized within the ranks of racers from different disciplines or
appointed by the UCI, as follows:
Florian Rousseau (FRA/appointed) –
President
Dario Cioni (ITA/appointed),
Cadel Evans (AUS/elected),
Philippe Gilbert (BEL/elected)
representing Road
Judith Arndt (GER/ elected),
Marianne Vos (NED/ elected)
representing Women Road
Anna Meares (AUS/ elected),
Teun Mulder (NED/ elected) representing
Track
Georgia Gould (USA/ elected),
Greg Minnaar (RSA/appointed)
representing MTB
Vilma Rimsaite (LTU/appointed),
Roger Rinderknecht (SUI/appointed)
representing BMX
Sven Nys (BEL/appointed) representing
Cyclo-cross
Jiri Jezek (CZE/ elected),
Lukas Weber (SUI/appointed)
representing Paracycling.
Finally, the UCI Management Committee
has named two new Commission Presidents: Mr Brian Cookson (GBR),
who was until now President of the UCI Cyclo-cross Commission, has been elected
to preside the UCI Road Commission. Mr
Marian Stetina (CZE) replaces him as UCI
Cyclo-cross Commission President.
