The World Championship will be held from June 13th to 16th, 2030.
After 15 years, Val Gardena will once again host the UCI Marathon World Championships. The award was made at the 194th UCI Congress, held, as usual, during the UCI Road World Championships. For the occasion, the good news came from Kigali, Rwanda, host of the 2025 World Championships.
"In recent years, HERO has been a benchmark for every organizer, not just in the world of marathons. The awarding of the 2030 World Championship, exactly fifteen years after the previous one, is therefore a well-deserved recognition that rewards our friend Gerhard Vanzi and his entire team, capable of offering something new every year and raising the bar even higher in terms of organizational quality, environmental awareness, and technical prowess." said Cordiano Dagnoni, President of the Italian Cycling Federation – And this award also confirms that our sports movement is capable of offering top-notch organizational proposals in all areas of cycling, relying on qualified, competent, and, as in the case of HERO, visionary clubs and managers. My thanks go to all of them, as well as to the local authorities and institutions, who believe in cycling as a lever for promoting our splendid country and contribute, with their commitment, to the organization of events that bring prestige to the entire Italian sports movement.
The HERO proposal for the world event includes the two iconic routes that have made the race a “must have” in the curriculum of every MTB enthusiast: from the 86 km route (4.500 m of altitude difference) for men to the 60 km route (3.200 m of altitude difference) for women.
This choice, following the successful 2015 experience, brings the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championship back to the stunning landscapes of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This area is rich in trail routes that attract thousands of people every spring and autumn, offering a sustainable and low-impact form of tourism. But Val Gardena is above all the home of the HERO Südtirol Dolomites, the toughest mountain bike marathon in the world, which over the past fifteen years has given mountain biking a more youthful and attractive image.
In the last edition of the HERO "world" held in Val Gardena in 2015 the Austrian won the rainbow jersey Alban Lakata, who won her second title there in the marathon discipline and the Norwegian Gunn-Rita Dhale (gold medal in cross country in Athens 2004) who took home his sixth world title in the marathon trials.
