The elite time trials on the UCI Highway World Championships 2024 in Zürich taken place on the opening Sunday – 22 September – with the ladies’s race occurring first, adopted by the lads’s.
Each are over hilly, however not mountainous, programs that end within the centre of Zürich, the most important metropolis in Switzerland, with Remco Evenepoel of Belgium and Chloe Dygert of the USA seeking to defend their titles.
The person time trials are adopted by the combined relay staff time trial in midweek, which takes place on the identical loop because the highway races, which occur the next weekend.
The junior males’s and girls’s and under-23 males race towards the clock midweek too.
The 2024 Worlds is the primary to mix the Highway Worlds and the Para-cycling Worlds in the identical occasion, with the para-cycling time trials occurring all through the week.
Ladies’s particular person time trial
(Picture credit score: UCI)
29.9km, Sunday 22 September, 12pm BST
The primary elite race on the Highway World Championships is the ladies’s time trial from Gossau to the center of Zürich, a 29.9km route which isn’t one for the pure rouleurs, with its 327m of elevation acquire. It’s a course of two halves, with a hilly opening 15.5km earlier than the second 14.4km of flat. Those that lose time on the primary half will hope to hurry alongside the second.
The most recent race content material, interviews, options, critiques and skilled shopping for guides, direct to your inbox!
The route begins in Gossau, a small city to the southeast of Zürich, and takes in 5 minor climbs, or bumps, because the route passes by way of the foothills of the Pfannenstiel, a wooded mountain, with views over Lake Zürich. 5-and-a-half kilometres in, there’s 700m at 5.3%, earlier than a climb of two.4km at 4.9%, together with 600m at 8.5%, at 10km into the TT. There are then three extra smaller ramps, 400m at 6.7%, 200m at 7.1%, and 200m at 8.4% earlier than the flat part.
The race finishes within the Sechseläutenplatz in the midst of the host metropolis. There are timing factors at 10.4km, atop the most important climb, and at 20.5km. Will probably be tackled on TT bikes, however is just not a course for the purists, with the quantity of climbing concerned.
Males’s particular person time trial
(Picture credit score: UCI)
46.1km, Sunday 22 September, 2:45pm BST
Later that very same day, the elite males experience an extended course, which begins and finishes in Zürich itself, beginning in Oerlikon to the north of the town, near the most important airport in Switzerland. The TT begins on the open-air Oerlikon Velodrome, which held the World Championships in 1923, 1929, 1936, 1946, 1953, 1961, and 1983. The route heads south in the direction of the place the ladies started in Gossau, earlier than becoming a member of up on the identical course from simply outdoors the city.
At 46.1km it’s over 16km longer than the elite girls’s route, however with little additional climbing with the additional distance, with 413m of elevation acquire. There’s a timing level at 12.5km in, earlier than the climbing begins, after which one other at 26.6km in, after that 2.4km hill on the best way in the direction of Lake Zürich. The third timing level comes at 36.7km in, as soon as the route turns into a largely flat quick run-in again to the centre of Zürich.
Residence followers shall be rooting for Stefan Küng, however it’s a course which can favour the defending champion Evenepoel, with the climbing and flat TT combine.
Combined relay staff time trial
(Picture credit score: UCI)
53.7km, Wednesday 25 September, 2pm
Later within the week, the combined relay TTT barely looks like a time trial, with its use of the identical Metropolis Circuit because the highway race. In simply 53.7km there’s 948m of elevation, so it is going to be a tough job for the three riders of the staff to stay collectively on the course. With the Zürichbergstrasse and the Wikiton tackled on every lap, it is going to be one for the climbers.
Junior and U23 time trials
(Picture credit score: UCI)
Swipe to scroll horizontally
Occasion
Date
Time
U23 Males
23 September
2:45pm
Junior males
23 September
9:15am
Junior girls
24 September
8:30am
The boys’s junior time trial hugs Lake Zürich all the best way right down to Feldmeilen and again to Zürich, near an Early Bronze Age pile-dwelling website, not that the riders will have the ability to see that. On their 24.9km course there’s simply 40m of elevation. The ladies’s equal is far the identical, however is 6.1km shorter, at 18.8km lengthy, turning at Herrliberg, which suggests 36m of elevation.
The under-23 males, in the meantime, experience the identical course because the elite girls, with 327m of elevation because of the foothills of the Pfannenstiel. It begins in Gossau, with 29.9km to be tackled earlier than ending within the centre of Zürich. The under-23 girls race concurrently the elite girls.
Para-cycling time trials
(Picture credit score: UCI)
Swipe to scroll horizontally
Occasion
Date
Time
Combined handbike
21 September
5:15pm
Ladies B
22 September
10:00am
Ladies C4-5
22 September
10:00am
Males B
23 September
12:15pm
Males C4-5
23 September
2:45pm
Ladies C1-3
24 September
11:00am
Ladies H3-5
24 September
11:00am
Males C1-3
24 September
11:00am
Ladies H1-2
24 September
4:00pm
Ladies T1-2
24 September
4:00pm
Males T1-2
24 September
4:00pm
The para-cycling TT programs are available two completely different varieties: both a duplicate of the elite girls’s course from Gossau to Zürich, or an out-and-back route out of Zürich, alongside the lake, after which again. The ladies’s B and C4-5 and the lads’s B and C4-5 sort out the 29.9km route that the elite girls rode, with the numerous quantity of climbing concerned. The subsequent day, the opposite particular person para occasions happen, with the ladies’s C1-3 and H3-5, and the lads’s C1-3 and H1-5 heading south alongside the lake from the Sechseläutenplatz so far as Herrliberg. It’s 18.8km with simply 36m of climbing.
The ladies’s H1-2 and T1-2 and males’s T1-2 particular person occasion is far the identical, however turns sooner, at Küsnacht, that means 11.3km with 13m of elevation alongside the course.
In the meantime, the combined handbike staff relay rides the Seefeld Circuit 9 occasions, for a distance of 14.7km across the centre of Zürich, which entails 41m of elevation.
