UCI Track World Championships

Landmark first joint championships shines spotlight on the sport and could change it forever.

Valente levels with Sarah Hammer as the most decorated American track cyclist in history after emphatic victory in Glasgow.

USAC sets out improvements with a new five-point plan put in place ahead of Paris 2024 Olympic selection.

Valente won all three of USA Cycling's medals on the boards in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.

Ineos Grendiers riders return to track spotlight as Ganna, Bigham, Hayter dominate the boards.

Valente delivers Team USA its first gold medal of the 2022 worlds.

The Italian, who only last week broke the UCI Hour Record, set a time of 3:59:636.

The British team puts the disappointment of the Olympic Games behind them by beating Italy in thrilling final.

American avoids a mid-race crash to take America's first medal at this year's championships.

From cyclocross to track racing, and cycling documentaries and random YouTube rabbit holes, there are plenty of ways to feed the racing fix.

Reigning individual pursuit world champion content with his track legacy: 'There was nothing more to be done.'

An overview of all the events and the title favorites for the track worlds, which takes place this week in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

A pursuit final is always tricky, because the time actually doesn't matter; it's the purest form of a race.

Although all competition tracks are 250m, there aren't many standards aside from that. Here's what I learned ahead of my world-title race.

How do you go from a world record ride, and keep exploring new areas of performance?

Gold-painted Pinarellos and several other bikes have been found a week after they were stolen.

Final day of competition sees many Olympic champions add rainbows to their trophy case.

Hayter wins world title after breakout road and track season, Kirsten Wild and Amy Pieters make it three-in-a-row in women's madison, and more.

Here's the news making headlines for Saturday, October 23.

The American rider Ashton Lambie blasted to individual pursuit glory, but what else happened at track worlds on Friday? Here's a wrap.

With a time of 4:05.060, Lambie takes a world title not held by an American man since Taylor Phinney in 2010.

Filippo Ganna leads home gold in men's pursuit, while Germany edges the Italians in the women's pursuit and Donavan Grondin wins scratch race.

Just months after racing for gold in Japan, some of the world's fastest track cyclists head to Roubaix for the 2021 track cycling world championships.

Noreen Landis-Tyson served as the first female president of the commissaire's panel at the UCI Track World Championships, and she is the first woman to hold that position at the Tokyo Olympics.

Flobikes will be the exclusive online streaming partner for UCI championship events for 2021-2024.

The United States women's team pursuit crossed the line 1.8 seconds ahead of Great Britain—a sizable margin in a race often decided by tenths of a second.

The Team USA women’s squad led the way, with Jennifer Valente winning two silvers in endurance races in the scratch and points races, and gold in the team pursuit.

After setting the world record twice in individual pursuit—once in 2018 and again in 2019—Lambie was a medal-favorite for Berlin.

The 25-year-old is the most experienced racer in a young and talented women's team, taking silver in her first of five events in Berlin.

USA Women's Team Pursuit put themselves in pole position for the world title round, posting fastest qualifying time.

A member of the world champion 2017 and 2018 USA Women's Team Pursuit offers an insider's insight into watching the fastest event on the track.

The three-time UCI World Champion Women’s Team Pursuit squad will be looking to earn another rainbow jersey.

The prolific sprinter will miss a shot at racing for the Olympic gold medal in the Madison this summer, but insists he is back in top shape for the road season.

The UCI's new reforms to track racing leave no room for sponsor-backed trade teams

USA Cycling's new National Team program begins to pay off with medals at 2018 world track championships.

American Chloe Dygert set a new world record and claimed the world title in the women's 3km individual pursuit at the world track championships.

American Chloe Dygert won her first individual world title by a whopping 7.143 seconds in the women's individual pursuit.

The American women's team pursuit squad wins its second championship in a row at Hong Kong track worlds.

British Cycling is still reeling from an off-the-track scandal that involved allegations of sexism and bullying.

Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins earned a big win in the Madison at worlds, and the Internet reacted as you might expect.

The 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships took place at the velodrome used for the 2012 London Olympics.

Mark Cavendish bounces back from a disappointing omnium performance to win another Madison world title alongside Bradley Wiggins

The American women’s team pursuit took its first-ever world title Friday, riding a 4:16.802 to best Canada in the gold medal round

Chloe Dygert and the U.S. women's team pursuit squad will square off against Canada for the gold medal Friday

Bradley Wiggins and the British squad were narrowly beaten by Australia in the team pursuit at UCI Track World Championships.

A young American team of Sarah Hammer, Jennifer Valente, Chloe Dygert, and Kelly Catlin breaks U.S. team pursuit record at worlds.

China's sprint team sprint coach punches table in anger, injuring himself, while recriminations fly among British team.

Great Britain's track cycling team returns to the site of its greatest triumph, expecting a big medal haul at 2016 UCI worlds.

Mark Cavendish confirms he'll race track worlds in his bid to race the omnium event at the Rio Olympics and vie for a gold medal.

Anna Meares wins an 11th world title as the host nation France closes the competition with victories in the men's sprint and Madison

Fernando Gaviria didn't win an event, but nonetheless came away from UCI track worlds with the men's omnium title

American Jennifer Valente continued the U.S.’ medal run with a silver in the individual pursuit

Bobby Lea took a second medal for the U.S. at track worlds on Thursday, and the British pursuit teams were upset

American Kimberly Geist took home the United States' first medal at track worlds on Wednesday, and China sets team sprint world record

The UCI will stream live footage from onboard cameras during select events at next week’s track world championships in France

Plaxton gets a big-money win in Texas, Boonen and Stannard split the opening weekend in Belgium, and Johansson rings up a couple of podiums

American Sarah Hammer took a second consecutive omnium title at the world track championships

Hammer wins second title of 2013 track worlds on the event's closing day

Great Britain's Becky James wins the sprint race at the Track Cycling Worlds one year after Victoria Pendleton, now retired, earned gold

Kenny rides through a repechage and past a disqualified Franois Pervis into a gold-medal keirin performance

American rides to within one world title of the all-time IP record

American is one win behind compatriot Rebecca Twigg and Russian Tamara Garkuchina for the IP record

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2010 Tour Down Under champ removes name from team pursuit chase at London Games

Hammer outlines where she thinks she can improve between now and London

World individual pursuit record holder Sarah Hammer assesses the current state of Olympic track cycling and the U.S. women's team pursuit performance at worlds

Day 5 of the 2012 UCI Track World Championships, through the lens of Casey B. Gibson

Day 4 of the 2012 track world championships, through the lens of Casey B. Gibson

IOC and UCI’s idea of having regional champions compete against one another will backfire

Intense rivalry like the Aussies and Brits have on the track is what pushes athletes "beyond the limits we put on ourselves"

Jamie Staff muses on missing the cut in the team sprint on Wednesday, which effectively ruled the United States out of the event in London

After medal disappointment, riders and staff look for answers four months out from London

Italian sprinter withdraws from track worlds with hairline fracture