Records & Honours

Who won what, and when. 486 world championship titles across the UCI and BIU championships, 1986 to 2026, with an all-time honours table and a count by nation. Each title is traced to the federation record that published it.

UCI premier champions, 2025

The UCI confirmed in October that the 2026 championship would not be contested, and that these champions keep their titles and jerseys. No 2026 title was awarded.

BIU premier champions, 2026

World champions, year by year

The full roll of both championships, class by class: the UCI from 1986, the BIU from 1992, including the age-group classes where many of the sport’s biggest names appear first. See the full list →

Most world titles

Ranked by premier titles, the open-age top class, with UCI and BIU counted equally and the two tracks listed separately. Full honours table, both tracks and by nation →

Open / men’s titles

Women’s titles

Leading nations

Premier world titles by the champion’s nation, both championships.

🇪🇸 Spain 79 🇫🇷 France 22 🇨🇿 Czechia 18 🇬🇧 Great Britain 13 🇸🇰 Slovakia 11 🇩🇪 Germany 11 🇨🇭 Switzerland 10 🇧🇪 Belgium 6

How these records are built

A results sheet shows who won a round, and most championships are decided over several rounds. A federation’s podium roll shows who stood on the box, usually without saying which competition it was. So each title on these pages comes from a federation record, rulebook or contemporary report, and is stored with the source that published it: 486 titles held by 215 riders.

The counts are a floor: a blank year means our sources do not establish a champion, not that nobody won. Seven World Cup awards that federation all-champions pages list as titles are left out, because the rulebooks of those seasons say a Cup is not the World Champion title. And the two championships are counted side by side. The UCI and the BIU have run world championships in parallel since 1992, so a rider can be world champion twice over in one season, and both count. Every gap is named, including the one title we do not count yet for lack of contemporary evidence.

World champions, year by year · Most world titles · Championship results, round by round · Famous riders · Our sources