Nadat het Flanders Classics van Wouter Vandenhaute in 2018 het roer van de Superprestige veldrijden overnam, krijgt het nu ook de organisatie van de wereldbeker veldrijden toegekend. Alvast vanaf het seizoen 2020-2021 tot en met 2023-2024.

Flanders Classics met Wouter Vandenhaute, de organisator van o.a. de Ronde van Vlaanderen, stapte in 2018 in het veldrijden door het roer van de Superprestige veldrijden over te nemen. (lees hier)

Vandaag laat de Internationale Wielerunie (UCI) via een persbericht weten dat het de organisatie van de Wereldbeker veldrijden heeft toegekend aan Flanders Classics. Alvast vanaf het seizoen 2020-2021 tot en met 2023-2024.

Het deel van het persbericht aangaande het veldrijden en de toekenning:

With regards to the reform of cyclo-cross and following a call for tender made in April, the Management Committee granted the UCI World Cup for the discipline to the organisation Flanders Classics, for a period going from the 2020-2021 season to the 2023-2024 season. The rights concerned are the following: general organisation rights, marketing and sponsoring rights, and distribution of television rights for the UCI World Cup and the UCI World Championships in Belgium (in Flemish), including TV production of the World Cup (worldwide) and the World Championships (in Belgium). More detailed information on the reform and on the concept of the new UCI World Cup for cyclo-cross developed with this new partner, including the calendar for the series, will be communicated at the end of the next UCI Management Committee meeting in September 2019.

Created in 2010 by a group of media, active notably in television production and broadcasting, Flanders Classics already organise 16 men’s and women’s one-day road races in Belgium, including four prestigious UCI WorldTour events: De Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres, Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields, Dwars door Vlaanderen - A Travers la Flandre and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite.

The UCI President David Lappartient welcomed this decision: “This partnership with Flanders Classics opens new international development possibilities for cyclo-cross. This company has demonstrated its know-how and its professionalism by taking the events it organises and promotes to unprecedented levels of popularity. The UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup will greatly benefit from its expertise in domains such as the production and broadcasting of images and the improvement of the offer to spectators.”



Wordt ongetwijfeld vervolgd ... in september.

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