Ladies’s races:
Australian Saya Sakakibara is the Olympic champion and a two-time World Cup champion. She is on observe for a 3rd World Cup victory and will probably be wanting so as to add the World Championship to her titles, however fourth is the very best she has managed to complete on this occasion.
Zoe Claessens will probably be trying to go one higher than final yr when she completed second behind American Alise Willoughby. The Swiss rider is primary on this season’s rankings and received bronze on the Paris Olympics.
Nice Britain’s Beth Shriever is an Olympic gold medallist and heads to Denmark in pursuit of a 3rd world title.
Within the ladies’s Underneath-23 race, Nice Britain’s Emily Hutt is the identify to look out for. She has completed second within the final two U23 World Championships and will probably be trying to declare the title for the primary time.
Males’s races:
France’s Joris Daudet is the person to beat. His win final yr at Rock Hill in the USA secured his fourth world title.
His compatriot Sylvain Andre will probably be trying to proceed a profitable yr. Andre is prime of each the boys’s elite rankings and World Cup standings. Nevertheless, he has not received the World Championship title since 2018.
Ross Cullen is the highest-ranked Briton on this season’s competitors. He received spherical 4 of the World Cup and is sixth within the particular person rankings. No British bicycle owner has been the boys’s world champion since Liam Phillips in 2013.
