The first qualifier event of the new season and test event for the 2020 World Championships have been taking place this past weekend in Vancouver/Whistler for a 76 miles / 122km Granfondo starting downtown in the city and arriving after a challenging race on undulating roads in the skiresort up north on the sea-to-sky highway.
RBC GranFondo Whistler is one of the biggest Granfondos on the American continent and will for the first time be a qualifier event, opening the 2020 qualifier season this weekend in Canada.
The 2019 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Poznan didn’t have a team relay on the schedule so riders had one more day of recovery after the time trial on Thursday to prepare for the Granfondo on Sunday.
After 22 qualifier events, riders could finally show their condition and power during the final event of the year in Poznan (Poland) during the 2019 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships.
The first ever qualifier event in Russia in the UCI Gran Fondo World Series could benefit of more than 1500 riders at the start.
At nearly 5000 ft elevation (1524m), and nestled in the Northern Rocky Mountains, the Cache Gran Fondo’s 1st showing in the UCI Gran Fondo World Series was a day of high-points, with over 1500 riders from 23 different US states and 7 different countries, making this year’s Cache Gran Fondo the largest ever.