The 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships was the 28th edition of the

UCI Mountain Bike World Championships The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are the world championship events for mountain bike racing in the disciplines of cross country, downhill, and four-cross. They are organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing b ...

. As in 2016, the championships in the various disciplines were held at separate events. The world championships in four-cross were held at

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, on 24 and 25 August 2017, alongside UCI World Cup events in cross-country and downhill. The world championships in

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and

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were held in

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, from 5 to 10 September 2017. The UCI world championships in

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, which had been held alongside the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships since 2000, were run as part of the newly created

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in 2017. The Urban Cycling World Championships also included the UCI world championships in

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, which had been part of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships since 2012, and in

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. The Cairns event marked the second time the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships had been held in Cairns and the third time the event was held in Australia, following the

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edition in Cairns and the

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edition in

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. This was the third consecutive year that the UCI World Championships in four-cross were held in Val di Sole.

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

Team events

Medal table

References

External links

MTB calendar on the UCI websiteOfficial website of the Val di Sole eventOfficial website of the Cairns event
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UCI Mountain Bike World Cup The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is a multi-round mountain bike racing series that is sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The first World Cup series – which was composed of cross-country events – was held in 1989. The Downhill Wo ...