After a long break with only Granfondo Australia in February and Maraton Franja in September with limited numbers of participants, the UCI Gran Fondo World Series will take a new start with a first American qualifier event in Jacksonville, Alabama this weekend in the lead up to the 2021 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Eastern Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in October.

The difficulties that most organisers still face in these early months of 2021 in respect with the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a big update of the 2021 UCI Gran Fondo World Series calendar, including the location and date of the 2021 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships.

A recent increase in infections and lockdown in Queensland and the risk of having a huge mass participation event with thousands of spectators in a city center made the organizers of Tour of Brisbane decide to not hold the event next weekend.

With the covid pandamic still controlling everyday life in most countries, a lot of events are investigating options to move to a later moment, still holding the event as qualifier for the 2021 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships.

The first European Granfondo in Cyprus was originally scheduled to take place at the end of March and already requested a move to April earlier this year.

The city of Warsaw (POL) will organize a new Granfondo and time trial in the UCI Gran Fondo World Series on the first weekend of July to remember the battle of Warsaw from 1920, a series of battles where Poland beated the Soviet army of Vladimir Lenin to secure independency and peace a century ago.