The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that the second edition of the UCI Snow Bike World Championships will be held in a new one-day format on Saturday 8 February 2025 in Châtel, Haute-Savoie, France.
Already host of the first edition in 2024, Châtel, Haute-Savoie has also been awarded the 2025 and 2026 UCI Snow Bike World Championships.
The 2025 edition will again see athletes compete in both the Super-G and the dual slalom. Whereas the two competitions were held on consecutive days in 2024, the new format next year will see riders tackle the two races on the same day: the Super-G in the morning, starting 9am, followed by the dual slalom in the evening, from 6pm (on a floodlit course).
As a reminder, both competition formats are inspired by alpine skiing. They will be raced on the same slopes as in 2024 but on slightly modified courses.
The Super-G races will take place over a single run on the L’Aity ski slope then the Stade du Linga, with competitors starting one by one at regular intervals. In February 2024, French athletes Morgane Such and Pierre Thévenard were crowned UCI World Champions in the women’s and men’s Super-G.
The dual slalom (comparable to the parallel slalom in snowboard and alpine skiing) will be raced on the Stade du Linga. The competition is made up of a series of elimination races in which two riders will go head-to-head on two parallel slalom courses. They compete against each other in two heats, switching courses for the second heat. The rider with the slowest time in the first heat will start the second heat with a penalty which corresponds to the time difference from the first heat, but which cannot exceed 0.5 seconds. The first to finish in the second heat will qualify for the next round. At the first edition of the UCI Snow Bike World Championships, Pierre Thévenard won his second title of the event, while the women’s dual slalom was won by Switzerland’s Lisa Baumann.
The same bike must be used for both competition formats and, although not mandatory, the UCI recommends that participants compete on downhill mountain bikes. The use of studded tyres will be regulated according to the equipment chapter of the event’s technical guide published on the UCI website. This guide contains all technical information – including rules, course maps, and participation quota per nation – useful for athletes, National Federations and media.
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