The traditional team relay on Friday evening as a side event of the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships had 19 teams at the start, all formed by 4 riders from which at least one male and one female. Two riders can be of any age, one rider must be over the age of 40 while another needs to be at least 50 years old.

The 2022 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Trento started today officially with the 19.6km flat and fast time trial.

The first qualifier event of the season, traditionally in Australia on the Great Ocean Road hosted almost 4000 riders in the different disciplines and distances over the weekend with gravel races, a family ride and two road distances from which the 130km race was the qualifier distance for the 2023 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships.

The registrations for the 2022 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Trento have been closed and startlists have been made up.

The Tour de Bintan, the race on the Indonesian island next to Singapore who was a qualifier event since 2017 has not been organized in the past two years because of covid, but will now appear back on the calendar on 14-16 October.

More than 2000 riders have actually registered for the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships taking place next week with a time trial on Thursday, a team relay on Friday evening and a Granfondo and Mediofondo on Sunday on the slopes of Monte Bondone.