10 days of competitions with all off-road disciplines: this has never happened before! Taking place in Châtel, Les Gets and Morzine-Avoriaz, the UCI Mountain Bike World Series Festival Haute-Savoie will combine UCI Mountain Bike World Cup racing with a festival celebrating this iconic region steeped in mountain biking history .
Source: press release
With over 600km of dedicated mountain bike trails and 24 lifts available, the Portes du Soleil in Haute-Savoie is the perfect host for this exciting new festival. With an exceptional natural heritage, Les Portes du Soleil is the place for lovers of outdoor sports. Between mountain pastures, alpine forests, peaks of Mont Blanc and landscapes of Lake Geneva, the Swiss Alps and the Dents du Midi, the surroundings will amaze both cyclists and spectators.
The Haute-Savoie department, organizer of this international competition together with the UCI and Warner Bros. Discovery, is a place full of mountains, lakes and an extraordinary natural environment. It has hosted major sporting events that have made Haute-Savoie famous: the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Winter Olympic Games in 1924; the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in 1937; the UCI Amateur Road World Championships in Sallanches in 1964; the UCI Road World Championships in Sallanches in 1980; the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships in Les Gets in 2004; the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Les Gets in 2022 and, in the near future, the Junior Alpine Ski World Championships in Portes du Soleil in 2024 and the UCI Cycling World Championships in 2027.
Les Gets will also serve as the festival's main hub, where the biggest brands in sport will congregate. For fans there will be live music, competitions for children and many other activities. The festival's satellite sports, namely Châtel and Morzine, will allow fans to enjoy and keep up with the racing wherever they are, with big screens broadcasting live from all UCI World Cup races, so that no one no action is lost.
Les Gets (7-10 Sep) – main office of XCO, XCC and DH.
Morzine-Avoriaz (September 16) – will host the penultimate round of the UCI XCM World Cup
Châtel (September 15-17) – will host both professional and amateur enduro and e-enduro racing for the first time
