(Reuters) – The 2022 highway biking world championships in the Australian metropolis of Wollongong will see males and women compete on the same elite time trial course for the primary time in the competitors’s historical past, biking’s world governing physique mentioned on Friday.
The championships will start with the boys’s and women’s elite time trials, which can each be held over the same distance and on the same course, mentioned Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
Time trials, a contest that pits cyclists in opposition to the clock to report the quickest time, are often performed over shorter distances for women.
“This is a primary in the historical past of the UCI Road World Championships and is in line with the UCI’s precedence of selling gender equality,” the organising physique mentioned in an announcement.
In the 2021 competitors, the women’s course happened over 30.3 km (18.8 miles), in contrast to the boys’s distance of 43.3 km.
The 2022 Road World Championships in Wollongong, a slender coastal metropolis positioned 68 km south of central Sydney, will happen on Sept. 18-25.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)
