Who organizes it?

The UCI is the owner of all official cycling world championships. At the 2018 Congress in Innsbruck, it entrusted its member federation, Swiss Cycling, with the organisation of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships.

Swiss Cycling leads, organises and represents Swiss cycling from the grassroots to the top of the world elite. The national federation sees itself as a hub as well as a competence centre for domestic cycling in the areas of competitive sport, mass sport, leisure and mobility.

In 2018, the city and canton of Zurich jointly applied to Swiss Cycling to host the 2024 World Cycling and Para-cycling Road Championships and were awarded the event by Swiss Cycling on 13 March 2019.

Verein Rad- und Para-Cycling-WM 2024

Swiss Cycling and the canton and city of Zurich are pooling know-how, expertise and resources as the members of the “Verein Rad- und Para-Cycling-WM 2024”, founded in December 2019, tasked with the organisation of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-Cycling Road World Championships Zurich.

The Board of Directors is composed as follows:

Stefan Schötzau, Head of the Sports Office of the Canton of Zurich, President

Urs Schmidig, Director of the Sports Office of the City of Zurich, Co-Vice-President

Thomas Peter, Managing Director Swiss Cycling, Co-Vice-President

Erika Herzig, Communication and Projects, Sports Office of the Canton of Zurich, Member

Tian Hartmann, Co-Director Project Staff City Council, City of Zurich, Member

Patrick Müller, Head of Sports, Swiss Cycling, Member

The Local Organising Committee, headed by Daniel A. Rupf (general project manager) and Olivier Senn (deputy manager and head of sports), is responsible for the operational preparation and implementation of this mega-event.