UCI Gravel World Series overview
The 2025 Trek UCI Gravel World Series collection of races serve as qualifiers for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, which will be held in Nice, France from October 17-18.
For the fourth season of the series, the first qualifying rounds were scheduled as part of a wrap-around season with a return of Gravelista on October 27 in Seymour, Victoria, Australia. The 2024 UEC European Gravel Championships were added as well, which were held on October 15 in Asiago, Italy.
Wörthersee Gravel Race in Austria returns on April 6 and is expected to be the lead event for the balance of qualifiers held in 2025, with the full schedule expected to be announced soon.
The series launched in 2022 with just 10 events as the UCI added gravel into the mix of more than a dozen disciplines with world championships. In 2023 the UCI added six more qualifying races in the series and increased the worldwide reach to 25 for this past season.
The majority of the rounds are in Europe, but along with two Australian rounds this past season there have also been events in South Africa, Canada and the United States.
The races vary in length and terrain for both elite riders and amateurs across age categories from 19-34 to 80-84, for both women and men. Riders can also gain entry to the World Championships without qualifying through the World Series races by winning national championships or being named as widcards by each national federation.
Many elite riders look to accumulate points in the series as these have played an important role in setting the all-important start grid positioning for their races at the UCI Gravel World Championships.
