The 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships were held in the French commune

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from 24 to 28 August 2022. Les Gets, located in the

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in the

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of France close to the border with Switzerland, previously hosted the

2004 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships The 2004 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships were held in Les Gets, a ski station in the French Alps, from 8 to 12 September 2004. The disciplines included were cross-country, downhill, four-cross, and trials. The event was the 15th ...

. The Les Gets Bike Park, which is located within the

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ski area, has of marked trails and provides for

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, freeride, and e-mountain biking.

Competition format

The following competitions and rider categories were contested at this event 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 ...

: In addition, a team relay was held restricted to one team of six riders per country. The default team composition was one man elite, one woman elite, one man U23, one man juniors, one woman U23 and one woman juniors, but the rules also allowed for substitutions.

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

The elite downhill saw an all-French podium, with

Loïc Bruni Loïc Bruni (born 13 May 1994) is a professional downhill mountain biker. He is a student at Skema Business School. Career Going into the 2015 season Bruni was one of the favorites. For that season he came 2nd in the world rankings on the Union ...

winning his fifth elite downhill world championship. In the short track, New Zealand's

Sam Gaze Samuel William Gaze (born 12 December 1995) is a New Zealand cross-country and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He won the under-23 Cross-Country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships and the 2017 UCI Mo ...

and the incumbent American world champion,

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, were competing for the title when both aimed for the same line at the last rock garden. Blevins crashed and eventually crossed the line in 16th place while Gaze took the title.

Women's events

Team event

Eighteen teams competed in the team event, with seventeen of those finishing. The French team was in the lead when their fifth rider crashed and had to finish the lap standing after having lost the saddle, dropping to fifth place. Switzerland won the world title ahead of Italy and the United States. New Zealand had been in third position when their third rider crashed; the team did not finish.

Under-23 and Junior events

References

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