The 2021

UCI Track Cycling World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...

were held from 20 to 24 October 2021 at the Velodrome Couvert Regional Jean-Stablinski in

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, France. The championships were originally scheduled to be held in

Ashgabat Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...

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. The elimination race was introduced for the first time in the history of World Championships

Bidding

showed their interest in hosting the championships at the Opening Ceremony of the

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General Assembly in September 2015. The Central Asian country's President

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 29 June 1957), also known as Arkadag (Cyrillic: Аркадаг, "protector"), is a Turkmen politician who served as the second president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022. A dentist by profes ...

expressed his intention in which he reiterated his aim to use sport to raise the profile of the nation. Berdimuhamedov described the proposal as "fully in accord" with the plans of the nation, adding that the country has "all the necessary conditions". Igor Makarov, the

-born president of the

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, outlined the attractions of the

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. The velodrome is among the largest velodromes in the world with room for 6000 spectators. He appealed directly to the president to consider bidding for the event. The championships would represent the largest-profile sporting event ever held in Turkmenistan. President of the

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(UCI) David Lappartient called the

Ashgabat Velodrome The Ashgabat Sports Complex Velodrome ( Turkmen ''Welotrek Sport Toplumy'') is a velodrome constructed in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. It was built by Turkish construction company Polimeks for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The track is 2 ...

"one of the most beautiful in the world" and noted that it was thanks to this structure that it was decided to grant Turkmenistan the right to host the World Track Cycling Championship in 2021. In June 2021 the UCI announced that the championships would be moved to a different venue. Roubaix was announced as the new venue in August 2021.

Schedule

22 events were held.Competition schedule
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Medal summary

Medal table

Men

Women

*Shaded events are non-Olympic

References

External links

Results book
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