Cycling in Yorkshire
The UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds take place from Saturday 21st to Sunday 29th September 2019. On the opening weekend, there's the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International and the mixed team time trial. There are then races every day of the week. The finale is the following weekend, featuring the elite women's and elite men's road races.
Read about UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds here.
The race programme at the UCI 2019 road cycling World Championships in Yorkshire, in date order.
The Championships kick off with the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International, on Saturday 21st September 2019, and finish with the elite women's and elite men's road races on the following weekend, Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th September.
Photos of competitors at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire road World Championships. I'll be out taking photos at most of the races during the nine days.
On Saturday 28th September 2019, the elite women's road race takes place. It is 150km from Bradford to Harrogate. This is the start list.
See where to watch the elite women's road race, and favourites for the elite women's road race.
See also all the events and routes at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
On Sunday 29th September 2019, the elite men's road race takes place in the morning. It is 280km from Leeds to Harrogate. This is the start list.
See where to watch the elite men's road race, and favourites for the elite men's road race.
See also all the events and routes at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
Maps of the routes of all events at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds. JPG, PDF, and Google maps.
See the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds maps.
Are you wondering where would be the best place to watch one or more of the events at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds?
It's often better to pick a spot where the competitors are going uphill; and in Harrogate, there are places where the riders will come past multiple times, not just once.
HedgehogCycling has suggestions for where to watch each of the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds events.
The UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds in Harrogate will be our town's moment in the sun. Not just 'a little sunshine' of the kind Nicole brought here in 1982 at the Eurovision Song Contest, but lots of it.
There's to be a cultural programme as part of Harrogate Welcomes the World, and Cycle Expo Yorkshire to coincide with the UCI sportive.
All the races finish in Harrogate, and many of them use the UCI 2019 Harrogate circuit.
Read about the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds in Harrogate.
On Sunday 22nd September 2019 there's an (open road) official UCI sportive, starting and finishing in Harrogate. It is open to 5,000 people (and maybe more places will be made available).
There are 3 routes - 72km, 98km, and 145km. From the map, it looks as though it finishes at the Yorkshire Showground (also where Cycle Expo takes place).
Read about the UCI 2019 official sportive.
Harrogate will be thronged with visitors during the UCI 2019 Yorkshire road World Championships. Many hotels and apartments will be full, especially for the end of the week and the final weekend.
Some local people are renting out private houses, and there's still availability for early in the week, and at some B&Bs. There are to be pop-up campsites for the event.
Read about where to stay for the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
On sister site SpeedyHedgehog.com there's a detailed guide to the routes of all the races at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
There are route guides to the road races, individual time trials, the mixed team time trial relay, and the Yorkshire International Para-Cycling 2019 event.
Read about the guides to the routes at the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
This North Yorkshire County Council page has details of road closures for the UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.
There are to be fixed road closures on the Harrogate circuit, for the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International, and for the time trials. These road closures will be 'amber' for a time before and after the racers pass, with crossing and access points open. When the race is on, they will be 'red'.
Road races only require rolling road closures, similar to those for the Tour de Yorkshire.
The NYCC page has details of all the road closures by location and by race day. Some schools have made changes to their opening hours, and that information is also on the NYCC page.
Too hard for out-and-out sprinters, and not mountainous enough for climbers, the Yorkshire road race course will favour those riders who do well in the Spring Classics.
That could mean Peter Sagan, who is used to wearing the World Champion's rainbow stripes (albeit not just now).
Other contenders include Belgians Philippe Gilbert and Greg van Avermaet, and Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel.
If he has still got any zing left in his legs after a long season, Julian Alaphilippe could become World Champion.
Read about favourites for the elite men's road race, UCI 2019 Yorkshire Worlds.