UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships return to US in 2022
The UCI confirmed today that Fayetteville, Arkansas will host the 2022 Cyclo-cross World Championships, as reported earlier by Cyclingnews.
The 2023 Worlds was awarded to Hoogerheide in the Netherlands, while previously announced hosts Dübendorf, Switzerland and Ostend, Belgium will host the next two upcoming World Championships, respectively.
The UCI also confirmed the US would continue to host the first two events of the 2019-2020 Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, with the series starting in Iowa City on September 14, 2019, followed by Waterloo on September 22. The series then goes to Bern, Tabor, Koksijde, Zolder, Nommay and Hoogerheide.
Commenting on the decision to award the world championships to Fayetteville, UCI President David Lappartient said: “We are delighted to see the return of our Worlds to the USA in 2022, which comes as confirmation of the international expansion of cyclo-cross and points to the growing interest among organisers in a discipline that offers significant development opportunities.”
Rumours of the possibility that Fayetteville would host the 2022 Worlds began spreading earlier this week after a website briefly went online featuring a logo with a bold headline declaring "UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Fayetteville 2022". The URL for that website no longer functions and directs users to an error notice.
Louisville, Kentucky hosted the cyclo-cross world championships in 2013, the first and only time the prestigious race has taken place in the US. Belgian legend Sven Nys won his final elite men's rainbow jersey there, and Dutch superstar Marianne Vos took home the elite women's title. Mathieu van der Poel won his second 'cross rainbow jersey in the junior men's race.
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