UCI World Cup rounds, Crankworx stops, Megavalanche, Rampage. Pulled from the official 2026 calendars and verified. Sorted by date.
The 2026 World Cup season already kicked off — Round 1 was in South Korea (1–3 May), the first-ever Asian DH World Cup round in 25 years. From here on it's a wall of racing: 13 more UCI rounds, three Crankworx festivals in Canada, the Megavalanche on a glacier in France, Rampage in the desert, and the season-ending DH at Whistler before the final in Lake Placid.
Most of these events stream free on the UCI MTB World Series app and YouTube. If you can get to one in person — especially Leogang, Whistler or Lenzerheide — do it. Watching a World Cup live in the woods is a different sport.
UCI World Cup · XCO / XCC
🇨🇿 Czechia · Round 2 of 14
XCO and Short Track open the European leg of the World Cup. Nové Město is the home race of legendary Czech XC champion Jaroslav Kulhavý and one of the loudest, best-attended XCO crowds on the circuit.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · DHI / EDR
🇫🇷 France · Round 3
First gravity round of the year and the first time the UCI Enduro World Cup has opened outside Italy since 2023. Steep Pyrenean tracks, big crowds in the valley.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · XCO / XCC / DHI / EDR — full discipline weekend
🇦🇹 Saalfelden-Leogang, Austria · Round 4
Every gravity and endurance discipline in one weekend. The DH course finishes with the trademark hip-jump into the finish arena. Best single-weekend spectator experience of the year.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · XCO / DHI
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Round 5
High-altitude alpine racing on one of the most technically diverse World Cup DH tracks. Lenzerheide regularly produces tight finishes and is a fan favourite for both XCO and DH.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · EDR (Enduro)
🇮🇹 Trentino, Italy · Round 6
Dolomite enduro on long, raw, blown-out tracks. Italy is the spiritual home of the old EWS scene and Val di Fassa keeps the racing properly hard.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · XCO / DHI / EDR
🇮🇹 Valle d'Aosta, Italy · Round 7
Another triple-discipline weekend, this time on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif. La Thuile's DH track is loose, steep and long — the kind of place where rough riders thrive.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · XCO / DHI
🇦🇩 Andorra · Round 8
Andorra's back on the calendar. Brutal sun, mountain-top XCO start lines and a DH course at altitude that punishes anyone who hasn't been in the gym all spring.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
Festival race · Mass-start enduro / DH
🇫🇷 Alpe d'Huez, France
A glacier mass-start at 3,330 m, hundreds of riders dropping in together, snow → scree → singletrack → forest all the way down to Allemond. It's the most chaotic and most fun race in mountain biking.
Status: confirmed · alpedhuez.com →
Festival · Crankworx World Tour
🇨🇦 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Ten days. Slopestyle, Speed & Style, Dual Slalom, Air DH, Pump Track, the Whip-Off Worlds, and Joyride to close it out. Crankworx Whistler is the Olympics of mountain biking — every rider you've ever heard of is there.
Status: confirmed · crankworx.com →
Festival · Crankworx World Tour
🇨🇦 SilverStar, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
New for 2026 — SilverStar joins the World Tour. Expect a Pump Track, an Air DH and a Downhill on the resort's well-loved Pro Course in the BC interior.
Status: confirmed · crankworx.com →
UCI World Cup · EDR
🇫🇷 France · Round 10
Enduro round one of two in Haute-Savoie. Long, raw, gnarly French alpine stages.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · XCO / DHI
🇫🇷 France · Round 11
XCO and Downhill take over the French alpine venue the week after the EDR. Two World Cup weekends in the same region back-to-back.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
Festival · Crankworx World Tour Grand Final
🇨🇦 Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec, Canada
New venue for Crankworx and the season's Grand Final. After 30 years of UCI World Cup history at Mont-Sainte-Anne, it gets a fresh start as Crankworx's eastern home and where the 2026 King & Queen titles will be decided.
Status: confirmed · crankworx.com →
UCI World Cup · XCO
🇺🇸 Midway, Utah, USA · Round 12
XCO returns to North America for the first US World Cup XC round in years, at the 2002 Winter Olympics venue. Altitude racing — most riders fly in early just to adapt.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · DHI — first ever at Whistler
🇨🇦 Whistler Mountain Bike Park, British Columbia, Canada · Round 13
The big one. Downhill's spiritual home finally gets a proper UCI World Cup round for the first time. Twenty-five years of Whistler bike park history. The race everyone wanted on the calendar.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
UCI World Cup · XCO / DHI — season finale
🇺🇸 Lake Placid Olympic Sites, New York, USA · Round 14 (Final)
Overall titles decided at the 1980 Winter Olympic site. Both XCO and DHI in one weekend, in the Adirondacks. New venue for the UCI calendar.
Status: confirmed · UCI MTB World Series →
Invite-only freeride
🇺🇸 Virgin, Utah, USA
The wildest contest in the sport — cliffs, canyon gaps, ridge-walks, step-downs the size of houses. Free livestream on the Red Bull TV app. Don't miss it.
Status: confirmed · redbull.com →
Invite-only DH · [provisional]
🇦🇺 Maydena Bike Park, Tasmania, Australia
Hardline Tasmania 2026 ran 7–8 February — the next edition is provisional for early 2027 based on the annual cadence. Track at Maydena Bike Park, Lutruwita. Expect confirmation from Red Bull in late 2026.
Status: provisional · redbull.com →
Not listed because they ran already this year: Red Bull Hardline Tasmania (Feb), Crankworx Christchurch (Feb) and Rotorua (March), UCI World Cup Round 1 South Korea (1–3 May). Red Bull Hardline Wales 2026 not confirmed at the time of writing — historically it's run in early September.
If there's a race or festival I should add — local Irish DH series, an Atherton Hardline Wales date that just got confirmed, anything — drop me a line.
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