UCI Road World Cycling Championships are coming to Geelong in September 2010

UCI Road World Cycling Championships are coming to Geelong in September 2010

In 2010, Melbourne and Geelong will welcome the 77th UCI Road World Championships and this event will provide a wonderful showcase for the sport of cycling in Australia. This event is second only to the legendary Tour de France in terms of importance and prestige in international cycling and it will bring the best riders in the world to Australia. The popularity of the Tour de France in Australia and the excitement created by it will flow on to create unprecedented interest in the World Championships. This will also be the first time this event has ever been staged in the Southern Hemisphere.

The event will be held over 5 days of competition from 29th September to 3rd October and features Elite Men and Women competitors as well as Under 23 Men’s.

Over 400 of the world’s best cyclists will descend on Melbourne to compete in Time Trial and Road Race events based in Geelong. In addition to the challenging courses set in Geelong for these competitors, for the first time in a World Championship, the Elite Men’s Road Race will begin in one city and finish in another with the start of the race in Melbourne, finishing with laps of the tough circuit in Geelong.

The interest in the event will certainly be heightened with the expected presence of defending World Champion (and Geelong local) Cadel Evans. In the past two Tour de France events he has finished second on each occasion; an achievement unsurpassed in Australian cycling history. His home town of Barwon Heads is just 20 minutes from Geelong, where he will attempt to win the Men’s Road Race on 3rd October 2010. The excitement and expectation this will generate will be unprecedented in the history of the sport here in Australia.

The fact that Geelong has been chosen to host an event of such scale is testament to the quality of the destination and our ability to deliver world class events.

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