The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and Warner Bros. Discovery are today pleased to unveil the calendar for the 2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series.
The Series, which will bring together the UCI World Cups for mountain bike’s main endurance formats – cross-country Olympic (XCO) and cross-country short track (XCC) –, and gravity formats – downhill (DHI) and enduro (EDR) –, will visit 10 countries over the course of 15 rounds spread across 16 weekends between April and October 2025.
After two cross-country rounds organised in Araxá-Minas Gerais (Brazil), the gravity specialists will go into action at the UCI Enduro World Cup round in the speciality’s hotspot Pietra Ligure - Finale Outdoor Region (Italy), before downhill joins the competition a week later at Enduro Trails - Bielsko-Biała (Poland).
The UCI World Cup rounds in Pietra Ligure and Bielsko-Biała will mark the start of five consecutive race weekends that will see the return of Nové Město na Moravě (Czechia) to the UCI Cross-Country World Cup programme and Loudenvielle-Peyragudes (France) to the UCI Downhill and UCI Enduro World Cups, before the first triple round (cross-country, downhill and enduro) at the well-known venue of Saalfelden Leogang - Salzburgerland (Austria).
The second half of the series will be marked by the appearance of a new UCI World Cup venue, La Thuile - Valle d'Aosta (Italy), hosting the UCI Downhill and Enduro World Cups, while Whiteface Mountain, in Wilmington (New York State, USA), located in the Lake Placid Olympic Region, will host a UCI Downhill World Cup round for the first time, a year after having provided the stage for a cross-country round at Mt Van Hoevenberg - Lake Placid for its UCI World Cup debut.
The Series will also see the return of the iconic venues of Val di Sole - Trentino (Italy), Val di Fassa - Trentino (Italy), host of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike Enduro and E-enduro World Championships, and the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships venue of Pal Arinsal (Andorra).
Also of note is the round in Haute-Savoie (France), which will take place over two consecutive weekends (exact venues to be announced) and will precede a round in Switzerland at Lenzerheide’s Bike Kingdom. The 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Valais (Switzerland) will take place between these two rounds. The season will conclude at Mont-Sainte-Anne (Canada), one of the discipline's historic venues.
UCI President David Lappartient said: “The WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series has already increased the visibility of the mountain bike discipline, with more rounds and more host venues than before. In 2025, we will continue the momentum with yet another new venue joining the Series. Starting in Brazil in April and finishing in Canada after months of exciting racing, the athletes and fans have a great deal to look forward to next season. It is going to be another intense year of mountain bike racing!”
Chris Ball, Vice President of Cycling Events at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, said: “Although I’m on tenterhooks to see the conclusion of this year’s WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series, the 2025 edition is shaping up to be the best season yet. We are expanding once more and welcome La Thuile into the UCI World Cup family, while Lake Placid adds Downhill to its schedule and brings the number of UCI Downhill World Cup rounds up to 10. The calendar also sees the return of locations that made successful debuts in 2024, as well as icons of the sport such as Val di Fassa, Nové Město na Moravě and Mont-Sainte-Anne. A perfect combination of innovation and tradition.
“Regardless of their pedigree, each round will take place at a venue that is at the pinnacle of mountain bike course design, guaranteeing exciting, adrenaline-fuelled racing from start to finish. The locations are also set in the heart of passionate mountain biking communities, and fans from near and far will line the courses and bring the noise come race day.”