Yorkshire will host the 2019 Road World Championships, the UCI has announced today. The county will stage the first UK edition of the championships since 1982, when Sean Kelly took bronze behind Greg LeMond and Giuseppe Saronni in Goodwood.
The announcement came as the UCI revealed the successful bids for an unprecedented number of upcoming UCI World Championships. Eleven countries, including Turkey - a first in the history of UCI World Championships - Canada, Poland, Germany and the USA, have been awarded hosting rights for 15 flagship events across seven cycling disciplines up to 2020.
Alongside the successful bid for Yorkshire and Great Britain, other confirmed hosts included Mont-Sainte-Anne (Canada), which has been awarded the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and Heusden-Zolder (Belgium) and Houston (USA), which will stage the 2019 and 2020 UCI BMX World Championships respectively.
The 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships will be held in Berlin, while the 2019 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships have been awarded to the Polish city of Poznan.
The UCI has also announced that every two years, the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships will be held at the UCI World Cycling Centre Velodrome, situated at the headquarters of the International Federation in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI say the decision was made as part of an ongoing strategy to help nurture and grow track cycling for young athletes by ensuring competing nations are fully supported through the state-of-the-art resources and facilities at the UCI's Home of Cycling.
The announcement was made at the end of the first day of the UCI Management Committee meeting, which is taking place in Doha, Qatar, during the 2016 UCI Road World Championships. It is the first time that these Championships are organised in the Middle East, and only the second time that they are held within the Asian Confederation.
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