The routes for the 2024 Road World Championships in Zurich were revealed on the final weekend of the Glasgow ‘super Worlds’ before Lotte Kopecky took victory in the women’s road race with Switzerland set to host the world’s best riders from September 21 to 29.
Zurich hosts the finale of the headline events, with the men’s road race starting northwest of the city in Winterthur and the women’s to the east in Uster. The routes contain a similarly punchy finishing circuit of Zurich’s city centre to Glasgow, but without as many corners and they are 279.2km and 157.6km in length respectively.
Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel and Wout Van Aert are among those in the early discussion for being best suited to the brutal parcours.
The route into Zurich continually undulates, with the Kyburg (1.2km at 12%) as the hardest early punch in the men’s and Binz (4.6km at 4.5%) the early test in the women’s, before the Zürichbergstrasse (1.1km at 8%) and Witikon (2.3km at 5.7%) line each of the circuits and will decide the race.
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Swiss stars Stefan Küng and Stefan Bisseger were at the presentation after competing in Glasgow and Stirling to assess the course. Küng was excellent in this year’s road race finishing fifth behind only Mathieu Van der Poel, Van Aert, Pogačar and Mads Pedersen.
“With the two climbs in the road race circuit, there will be movement in the races. They will be open and exciting,” Küng said. “The races will definitely be difficult,” added Bisseger.
The circuit itself is 27km long and will be tackled four times in the women’s race and seven times in the men’s, amounting to an extremely difficult day which should breed similarly exciting races to the 2022 World Championships for the finest Classics riders in the world to battle it out.
Kopecky and Mathieu van der Poel will arrive at Zurich 2024 as the defending champions, after both winning solo in two of the most thrilling races of the year in Glasgow.
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