The death of Swiss junior rider Muriel Farrar cast a pall of sadness and mourning over the world championships in Zurich, but local officials decided to continue racing and the UCI held its annual meeting on Friday.

The UCI approved the budget, race calendar, and minor rule changes, as well as awarding Denmark and Belgium 16 world championships, including road world championships in 2029 and 2030, respectively. [The UCI announced that the 2030 Track World Championships will be held in Brisbane, Australia, and the 2030 Cyclocross World Championships in Namur, Belgium.

Other world championships have already been confirmed, with the 2025 championships to be held in Rwanda, the first in Africa; the 2026 championships will be held in Montreal, Canada; and the Haute-Savoie department in France, which includes the Alps, will bring together road, track, and mountain bike The “Super World Championships” will be held in the Haute-Savoie department of France, which includes the Alps.

The 2028 Road World Championships will be held in Abu Dhabi, while Abu Dhabi in the Middle East will also host the 2029 Track World Championships.

Denmark won the bid for the 2029 road world championships, and local officials have announced that several road races will start in Roskilde and Helsingør, as they did in 2011 when Britain's Mark Cavendish won the elite men's title, and the Danish capital announced that they would end in Copenhagen.

The time trial to open the world championships will be held in Aarhus on the Jutland peninsula, 300 km from the capital.

After three hilly World Championships in Rwanda, Montreal, and France, the flat, wind-sensitive courses in Abu Dhabi and Denmark mean that the 2028 and 2029 races will be suitable for sprinters and classicists.

The 2030 World Championships will be held on the rugged terrain around the capital Brussels, and organizers have promised to visit both Flanders and Wallonie as a sign of national unity.

The 2030 World Championships will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Belgium, which separated from the Netherlands in a revolution.

This will be the 11th time Belgium has hosted a road world championship, but the first time it will be held in the capital, Brussels. Brussels has already budgeted 10 million euros, much of which will be paid to the UCI to secure the right to host the world championships.

The Flanders Classics, which organizes many of the spring classics, will handle the technical aspects. Belgium last hosted a road world championship in Leuven in 2021.

“The shape of the city circuit and the location of the finish are roughly set, but they still need to be approved. Thomas van den Spiegel, CEO of the Flanders Classic, told Sporza: “We have a lot of work to do.

“Brussels will be the center of the city circuit, but there will also be time trials and other events.

“The intention is to show the beauty of our country and to create a selective course.

“We have a rider from Brussels who recently won two Olympic championships and has already won a world title in Zurich. I think he is a fan of the selective circuit, so I think he can be a logical ambassador,” van den Spiegel said of Remco Evenpol. [Unlimited access to all coverage of the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, including breaking news and analysis from local journalists, including junior, under-23 and elite time trial and road races. For more information.