The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: Val di Sole 2026 and recent winners.

Status on 22 October 2026

Val di Sole 2026 is finished. Racing ran from Wednesday 26 August to Sunday 30 August 2026, matching the dates the UCI had published in advance, and every result below comes from the UCI's own reports unless we say otherwise.

The 2026 elite champions

Frei's win was her first elite world title, after under-23 titles in 2017 and 2019. Pidcock's was his second XCO world title, after Glentress, Scotland, in 2023. In downhill, run on the Black Snake course, Holl won her fifth world title in a row and Goldstone his second in a row (UCI).

Other 2026 titles

• E-MTB cross-country, 26 August: Anna Spielmann (Austria) and Jerome Gilloux (France).
• Cross-country team relay: Italy.
• Junior XCO: Anja Grossmann (Switzerland) and Connor Wright (Australia).
• Under-23 XCC: Monique Halter and Nicolas Halter, both of Switzerland.

All from the UCI. Our research did not collect the under-23 XCO results or the junior and under-23 downhill results.

Elite winners, 2023 to 2026

All from UCI reports; several 2024 and 2025 results reached us through search summaries of those reports. The 2023 championships were part of the combined UCI Cycling World Championships, and our research collected only Pidcock's title, which the UCI mentions in its 2026 report.

2025, Valais (1 to 14 September 2025)

Downhill was held at Champery and cross-country at Crans-Montana. Hatherly kept his XCO title in 1:30:30, ahead of Avondetto of Italy, whose first name the UCI report did not give, at 48 seconds, and Victor Koretzky (France) at 51 seconds. Rissveds won her first elite XCO world title in 1:21:35, ahead of Samara Maxwell at 18 seconds and Alessandra Keller at 56 seconds; the summary we saw did not give their nationalities. In the downhill on 7 September 2025, Holl won her fourth title in a row and Goldstone his first elite title. Isabella Holmgren (Canada) won the women's under-23 XCO for the second year running.

2024, Pal Arinsal (28 August to 1 September 2024)

Pieterse won the women's XCO ahead of Anne Terpstra and Martina Berta, and Hatherly won his first elite title. Holl took her third downhill title in a row, with Myriam Nicole second. The short track titles went to Evie Richards (Great Britain) and Victor Koretzky (France), per a UCI headline.

The formats, as the UCI describes them

Cross-country Olympic (XCO)

Laps of a circuit typically 3.5 to 4.5 km long, with elite races of about 80 to 100 minutes. On the Olympic programme since Atlanta 1996.

Short track (XCC)

A race of about 20 minutes, first held as a world championship in 2021, also at Val di Sole. The course length differs between UCI explainers: about 1 to 2 km in its 2026 world championships explainer, and 1 to 1.5 km in a 2019 explainer. The UCI said in 2019 that XCC results help set the XCO start grid at World Cup rounds.

Downhill (DHI)

An individual race against the clock on a course usually 2 to 5 km long, with elite runs of about 3 to 5 minutes. Downhill and cross-country were both on the programme of the first UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, at Durango, USA, in 1990.

Team relay (XCR)

Each rider completes one lap; the first world title was decided in 1999 at Are, Sweden.

E-mountain bike cross-country (E-XC)

World titles first awarded in 2019 at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada.

Cross-country marathon has its own separate world championships, and the UCI Congress of September 2025 awarded the 2026 Mountain Bike Eliminator World Championships to Barcelona, Spain. Our research did not collect results for either. More on the formats is on mountain biking, and Olympic results are on the Olympics.