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Check out the full calendar for the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup and catch up on highlights from every single stop of the 2024 racing season here.
The UCI has released the calendar for the 2025 Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series season for the Downhill (DH), Cross-country Short Track (XCC), Cross-country Olympic (XCO) and Enduro (EDR) disciplines.
The expanded 2025 calendar features seven stops for the enduro racer and 10 stops each for the downhillers and cross-country elite. There's two new venues for downhill, La Thuile in Italy and Lake Placid in the USA, while Araxá in Brazil will host back-to-back XCO and XCC races to start the season.
Scroll on down below to see the full 2025 calendar and watch highlights from all the downhill and cross-country racing from each round of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series.
2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Series and World Championship calendar
- May 9–11: Pietra Ligure, Italy (EDR)
- June 27–29: Val di Fassa, Italy (EDR)
Where can I watch the UCI Mountain Bike World Series?
Live coverage of the downhill and cross-country races at the UCI Mountain Bike World Series can be found on YouTube, the UCI Mountain Bike World Series website and the GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+ platforms depending on the race. Red Bull TV will feature highlights from each round of the World Cup after the end of racing.
Downhill
- Junior category: available for free live on YouTube and the UCI Mountain Bike World Series website – also live on GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+
- Elite semi-finals: available for free live on YouTube and the UCI Mountain Bike World Series website – also live on GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+
- Finals: live on GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+
Cross-country
- Elite short track: live on GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+
- U23 XCO: available for free live on YouTube and the UCI Mountain Bike World Series website – Also live on GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+
- Elite XCO: live on GCN+, Eurosport and Discovery+
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Araxá, Brazil
April 3-6
Evie Richards of the UK started the 2025 Mountain Bike World Cup season with a brilliant XCC victory at Araxá in Brazil on Saturday as Chilean Martín Vidaurre showed off his sprinting prowess to bank third in the men's XCO race on Sunday.
Saturday's women's XCC race saw reigning world champion Richards produce a masterclass to grab the win in the season opener after Jolanda Neff, Jenny Rissveds and Loana Lecomte pushed the pace early in a lead group that also included Richards, Alessandra Keller and Sina Frei.
It was a different story in Sunday's XCO race as Richards finished down in 11th place behind winner Samara Maxwell with Nicole Koller in second place and American Savilia Blunk rounding out the podium in third. Maxwell became the first female rider from New Zealand to secure an XCO World Cup elite win.
After American Christopher Blevins won Saturday's men's XCC race by one second from French duo Victor Koretzky and Mathis Azzaro, Sunday's XCO race saw Koretzky break clear to win by 10 seconds from Blevins with Vidaurre edging out Swiss Lars Forster for third spot.
Koretzky and Blevins led from the front and powered clear of the field to start the penultimate lap with a huge 50-second advantage, the Frenchman digging deep before the final lap to pull away despite a slow puncture as Vidaurre, 25, turned on the speed to claim third in a sprint.
The World Cup now makes a swift return to Araxá with another round of XCC and XCO competition from April 10-12.
