The course for the first UCI Gravel World Championships outside Europe has been revealed, with the elite men taking on 140.7km and the elite women 123.1km on the challenging 2026 routes carved out from among the plentiful gravel roads around Nannup, Australia.
It’s a course for the October 10-11 event that has many of the features that have become familiar to riders of the SEVEN Gravel Race, one of the very first event in the UCI Gravel World Series when it began in 2022.
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“The majority of the climbs are a consistent gradient as well so it’s not like you’re going up a brick wall of a climb as the gradients are anywhere between 5% to 8% … but you are still being hit by continuous climbing throughout the race and the fatigue generated by the end of the race is quite significant.”
It will be a similar course to the UCI Gravel World Series event of SEVEN on May 16, as…
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