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Bike trials world champions
Every bicycle trials world champion we can document, year by year and class by class:
486 title awards across the UCI and BIU championships,
1986 to 2026. Each one comes from a federation record, rulebook or
contemporary report, and carries the source that published it.
A blank cell means the sources we have reviewed do not name a champion for that class and year. It
does not mean no title was awarded: where a title was contested and we cannot yet name the winner,
it is listed under coverage. ★ marks a premier
title, the open-age top class of that programme in that year. UCI and BIU titles count equally.
UCI Trials World Championship
The UCI has run a trials world championship since 1986; its own 30-year
retrospective and official podium roll both start there. One open-age men's title was awarded each
year until 1994, first as Senior and then as Elite. From 1995 the men's championship splits by
wheel size, 20-inch ("mod") and 26-inch ("stock"), each awarding a full world title. The women's
championship runs from 2001, with one earlier Femina title in 1991. Our reviewed UCI sources run to
2025.
Premier titles
Junior and youth classes
BIU World Championship
The BikeTrial International Union was founded in 1992 and has run its own
world championship alongside the UCI's ever since, so a season can have two world champions in the
same class, and several riders have held both. Its class ladder changed twice: Elite, Master and
Expert with wheel-size variants through 2019, then numbered classes from 2022.
Premier titles
Junior, youth and other classes
Coverage and gaps
- UCI 2020:
no edition held, stated in the official roll.
- UCI 2026:
no titles awarded. The federation announced the championship would not be contested.
- BIU 2020, 2021:
cancelled. The federation published a cancellation notice.
- BIU 2023:
no world championship in the published season programme. We read that off the official catalogue; the federation published no cancellation notice.
- The 1990 women's title is not counted. Two retrospective rolls name Helena Kurandová
as champion, and we hold a result from one round that season. Neither is a contemporary final
classification, and one of the two rolls is a 2014 compilation that copies the other, so they
are not independent support. We will count it if contemporary post-season evidence surfaces.
- World Cups are not world championships. Seven Cup awards that federation
all-champions pages list as titles are left out: the four BIU "Major" winners of 2016 to 2019
and the three 2026 Hobby class winners. Articles 18 and 19 of those seasons' own rulebooks
say those competitions award a Cup and not the title of World Champion. The results stay in
our archive; they are not counted here.
- Early women's championships have a thinner source base. The UCI retrospective that
anchors the pre-2000 era does not carry the women's field, so a blank women's year before
2001 reflects the state of our sources. We do not assume the class ran in every season either;
that needs its own evidence.
- A round winner is not a champion. Where a season was decided over several rounds, the
title goes to whoever won the final standings. The round results are in the
championship archive under their own events,
and they sometimes name a different rider: in 1997 and 1998 the opening round and the
title-deciding competition had different winners.
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