World Cycling Championship in Bergen, Norway 2017

The 2017 World Championships will take place from September 17-24.

 World Team Time Trial Championship, Sunday September 17 The team time trials take place early on in the proceedings, the day after the opening ceremony.
 Unlike the individual time trial and road races, men and women cover the same course. The route is 42.5km long and starts in Askøy archipelago, just outside Bergen.

 The opening kilometres will be fairly flat, before winding out to the centre of Kleppestø and over the Askøy Bridge. Once over the bridge, there’s a 4km stretch that becomes much more technical, and then a 600 m climb with an average gradient of 10 per cent at Loddefjord.
 Next, the route becomes flat again for around 10km, before ramping up for 3km in a climb to Birkelundsbakken – this averages at six per cent but pitches up to 16 per cent.