The 15th season of the UCI Gran Fondo World Series, UCI’s qualifier series for the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships will start this weekend with the UCI Gran Fondo Jordan Dead Sea who will be organized for the third time. A total of 30 events in 5 continents are part of the series with 6 new races added to the calendar.
5 events already took place at the end of 2024 counting as qualifier for the 2025 World Championships with races in Italy (2), Australia, Brazil and Turkey.
6 events are new on the calendar with a first one scheduled in China, a new country in the UCI Gran Fondo World Series. Granfondo China on the island of Hainan is scheduled for March but likely to be postponed to May and/or September.
Granfondo Belgium is a new event with a course spanning the south of Belgium and the north of France on 20 April in the Lac de l’Eau d’Heure region.
Pekan Classics on 21-22 June is a first event in Malaysia in the series on a flat course with a time trial and granfondo in the city of Pekan.
Granfondo Asociacion Espanola is a first event in Uruguay in the capital city of Montevideo. The course is mainly flat and follows the borders of the Atlantic Ocean in the final.
Two new events will be organized past the 2025 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships counting for the 2026 season with UCI Gran Fondo Loutraki in Greece on 2 November with two major climbs in the second half and Granfondo La Guadeloupe on the French island in the Caribbean Sea to conclude the 2025 season on 7 December.
The 2025 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships will take place in Lorne along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia between 16 and 19 October. The event has a technical back and forth time trial loop over 22.5km on Thursday, followed by a team relay in Geelong the next day and a 130km Granfondo on Sunday with a 10km climb at the start and final along the Great Ocean Road to crown the new 2025 World Champions per age group.
