UCI World Championships medal table

The UCI World Championships offered 13 UCI World Championships held from August 3-13 across ten host regions in Scotland.

The event brought together more than 8,000 athletes across 120 nations who were competing for more than 200 world titles, plus medals.

The combined UCI World Championships included BMX Freestyle Park, BMX Freestyle Flatland, BMX Racing, Gran Fondo, Indoor Cycling, Mountain Bike Cross Country, Mountain Bike Marathon, Mountain Bike Downhill, Para-cycling Road, Para-cycling Track, Road, Track and Trials.

Rainbow jerseys awarded in road, track and cross-country mountain bike

There were a total of 46 world titles across the disciplines of road, track and cross-country mountain bike racing held from August 3-13 in and around Glasgow. Cyclingnews has kept track of all the gold, silver and bronze medal winners in each of those events throughout the Worlds.

Road

The road racing kicked off this year with the Julie Bego capturing the junior women's road race title after a late-race solo attack to beat solo on the finishing circuits to beat Britain's Cat Ferguson and Belgium’s Fleur Moors. In the junior men's road race, Albert Philipsen of Denmark took a stunning solo win as Paul Fietzke (Germany) claimed silver and Felix Ørn-Kristoff (Norway)  bronze.

In one of the most captivating performances this week, Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands soloed to victory in the elite men's road race despite a late crash. Wout van Aert of Belgian took silver, while Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) secured bronze.

The road events then turned to the Team Time Trial Mixed Relay where Switzerland overcame a crash to win the world title for a second year in a row, narrowly beating France and Germany.

The road events continued with the individual time trials from August 9-11, while the under-23 men's and elite/under-23 women's road races close out the World Championships on August 12-13.

Italy’s Lorenzo Milesi took a close victory in the under-23 men's individual time trial beating Belgium’s Alec Segaert and Australia's Hamish McKenzie.

In a stunning performance, Chloé Dygert (USA) reclaimed her position as the fastest individual time triallist in the world, securing her second elite women's rainbow jersey in the discipline just days after winning the Individual Pursuit world title. Antonia Niedermaier (Germany) was the fastest under-23 rider to cross the line in the combined race. Felicity Wilson-Haffenden won the junior women’s time trial title.

Remco Evenepoel smashed the elite men's individual time trial to claim the world title ahead of Italy’s Filippo Ganna and Great Britain's Josh Tarling in Stirling, becoming the first-ever Belgian to win the elite men's rainbow jersey in the discipline. Australia's Oscar Chamberlain won the junior men's time trial world title beating Great Britain’s Ben Wiggins and Germany’s Louis Leidert.

France’s Axel Laurance took a solo flyer on the penultimate lap to claim the rainbow jersey in the under-23 men's road race. Antonio Morgado (Portugal) won the sprint for the silver medal ahead of Martin Svrcek (Slovakia).

Belgian's Lotte Kopecky attacked with 5.5 km to go on the climb of Scott Street to win elite women’s road race despite being marked the whole day.  Demi Vollering (Netherlands) outsprinted Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Denmark) in the sprint for second place, 7 seconds down on Kopecky. 

Blanka Vas outsprinted Shirin van Anrooij (Netherlands) to win the under-23 title and the first-ever rainbow jersey for Hungary. Anna Shackley (Great Britain) claimed the bronze medal.

Track

American talent Chloé Dygert took the first world title of the Track World Championships on the opening day of racing at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, while Great Britain's William Tidball also took the world title in men's Scratch and Germany delivered a women's team sprint record.

On Day 2 of racing, American Jennifer Valente won the Scratch Race, Germany's Emma Hinze added to the gold-medal count in the 500m TT, and the Netherlands won the men's Team Sprint.

An exciting Day 3 saw Denmark and Great Britain claim the men's and women's Team Pursuit titles.

Italy’s Filippo Ganna won the elite men’s Individual Pursuit on Day 4 in a tight battle against Daniel Bigham (Great Britain). Belgium's Lotte Kopecky won the Elimination race, Ellesse Andrews claimed gold for New Zealand in the women's Keirin, and Iuri Leitao gave Portugal their first world title in track cycling in the men's Omnium. 

Day 5 of track racing saw Great Britain capture the gold medals in both the women's Madison and men's Elimination Race, while Harrie Lavreysen won a fifth consecutive Sprint world title.

On Day 6 at the velodrome, Lotte Kopecky secured another world title in the Points Race, Jeffrey Hoogland won the men's 1km TT, and the Netherlands staged a massive coup to win the men's Madison.

On the final day of track racing, Jennifer Valente secured the gold medal in the women's Omnium, Emma Finucane earned her first world title in the women's Sprint, Aaron Gate won the men's Points Race, Kevin Quintero won the men's Keirin

Mountain Bike

The mountain biking events officially began with the Downhill at Fort William and Marathons from August 2-6. Following a three-day break, the competition continued with the cross-country categories of the men's and women's E-MTB on August 9 and the short track and Olympic cross-country events from August 10-12 at Glentress Forest.

Nino Schurter anchored Switzerland to another victory in the Mixed Team Relay as the mountain bike racing began in Glentress Forest Park, south of Edinburgh.

Reigning mountain bike world champions in the short track cross-country discipline proved to be the best yet again, as Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France) and Sam Gaze (New Zealand) repeated as world champions at Glentress Forest.

In the junior races, Isabella Holmgren (Canada) and Albert Withen Philpsen (Den) secured the world titles for their respective nations. 

In the under-23 cross-country events, Great Britain’s Charlie Aldridge captured the men’s under-23 title, and Samara Maxwell of New Zealand won the women’s U23 title at Glentress Forest.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France) added another world title to her palmares by claiming a crushing victory in the elite women’s cross country. It was her fifth XCC world title in total after previous triumphs in 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2022. Loana Lecomte (France) finished second and Puck Pieterse (Netherlands) was third.

Tom Pidcock (Great Britain) soloed to victory in the elite men's cross country to conclude the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.  Winner of the XCC, Sam Gaze (New Zealand) mounted a chase to win the silver ahead of 10-time world champion Nino Schurter (Switzerland), who claimed bronze.