Morocco and Rwanda Vie to Host 2025 UCI Road Cycling World Championships

This information was confirmed on Saturday, September 28 by David Lappartient, President of the International Cycling Union (UCI). "The candidacies are closed and we have received two formal candidacies," he announced, on the occasion of the 2019 World Championships organized in Yorkshire (England).

Acknowledging that these two candidacies are of "high quality," the President announces that he will soon receive a delegation from Morocco, after having met, a few days earlier, the Rwandan authorities, the Federation and the Ministry of Sports of the country concerned.

Often organized in Europe and sometimes in Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Qatar, the Road World Championships have never been held in Africa. If Morocco or Rwanda wins the trust of the organizers to host them, it will be a first for the new continent.

A few months before the next edition scheduled for 2020 in Switzerland, a change in the program of the next World Championships is already announced with the individual time trial for men on Sunday, September 29, and the mixed relay on Wednesday, October 2.

The change in scheduling was decided in order to remove obstacles to the participation of riders in the mixed relay. "Some of them were indeed focusing on individual time trials," the organizers conclude.