The events who take place this year after the 2021 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships have been approved by the UCI management committee. Those events are the first qualifiers of the 2022 UCI Gran Fondo World Series leading up to the 2022 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships who take place in Trento, Italy.

The Granfondo in Moscow who had been planned on 22-23 May and had to be moved last minute as Covid infections had a short peak around that time in the capital city of Russia now moves to 10-11 July.

The recent increase in Covid-19 infections in the city of Moscow resulted in a postponement of the Garden ring race which was scheduled for this weekend. The race will now be rescheduled to July.

Despite Covid-19, the 2021 Cheaha Challenge Granfondo broke another participants’ record with 1231 riders in the Granfondo and 151 in the time trial, a quarter more than in the last edition in 2019. Riders from 35 different US States signed up for the event.

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.