The UCI have introduced that the UCI Esports International Championships will probably be moved from February to October in 2024, with 40 athletes travelling to Abu Dhabi to contest the lads’s and ladies’s finals in individual.
Zwift labored intently with the UCI to create and organise the primary Esports International Championships in 2020 however a brand new gentle procedure noticed MyWhoosh emerge because the organiser between 2024-2026. MyWhoosh used to be created in Abu Dhabi in 2019 and is lately unfastened to make use of by the use of the MyWhoosh app.
MyWhoosh sponsors the UAE Crew Emirates WorldTour workforce and Abu Dhabi will host a sequence of UCI International Championships within the future years.
Abu Dhabi will host the 2024 UCI City Biking International Championships, the 2028 UCI Street International Championships, the 2028 UCI Gran Fondo International Championships and the 2029 UCI Observe International Championships.
Zwift stays as a sponsor of the Excursion de France Femmes and likewise hosts and organises a sequence of primary racing competitions. Zwift has additionally introduced the 2023 Academy programme that gives a chance to safe a freelance with the ladies’s Canyon/Sram Technology and the lads’s Alpecin-Deceuninck Building groups.
The 2024 Esports International Championships will come with digital qualifying rounds, with main points of the qualification pathways and race structure printed in early 2024.
No clarification used to be given for the alternate in date. The February date favoured athletes who had skilled and raced indoors all the way through the Ecu iciness however failed to draw most of the absolute best skilled riders.
Loes Adegeest of the Netherlands and Denmark’s Bjørn Andreasson received the 2023 Esports titles.
Adegeest outpaced Zoe Langham (Nice Britain), whilst Jacqueline Godbe (USA) took bronze.
Andreasson used a special tactic, leaping clear of the 10-man ultimate staff proper on the very beginning after which maintaining a constant rhythm and heading off the stop-start nature of the removing race sprints. Former international champion Jason Osbourne and Marc Mäding took silver and bronze.