The elite time trials at the UCI Road World Championships 2024 in Zürich taken place on the opening Sunday – 22 September – with the women’s race occurring first, followed by the men’s.

Both are over hilly, but not mountainous, courses that finish in the centre of Zürich, the biggest city in Switzerland, with Remco Evenepoel of Belgium and Chloe Dygert of the USA looking to defend their titles.

The route begins in Gossau, a small town to the southeast of Zürich, and takes in five minor climbs, or bumps, as the route passes through the foothills of the Pfannenstiel, a wooded mountain, with views over Lake Zürich. Five-and-a-half kilometres in, there is 700m at 5.3%, before a climb of 2.4km at 4.9%, including 600m at 8.5%, at 10km into the TT. There are then three more smaller ramps, 400m at 6.7%, 200m at 7.1%, and 200m at 8.4% before the flat section.

Later that same day, the elite men ride a longer course, which begins and finishes in Zürich itself, starting in Oerlikon to the north of the city, close to the biggest airport in Switzerland. The TT begins on the open-air Oerlikon Velodrome, which held the World Championships in 1923, 1929, 1936, 1946, 1953, 1961, and 1983. The route heads south towards where the women began in Gossau, before joining up on the same course from just outside the town.

At 46.1km it is over 16km longer than the elite women’s route, but with little extra climbing with the extra distance, with 413m of elevation gain. There is a timing point at 12.5km in, before the climbing starts, and then another at 26.6km in, after that 2.4km hill on the way towards Lake Zürich. The third timing point comes at 36.7km in, once the route becomes a largely flat fast run-in back to the centre of Zürich.

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Event	Date	Time
U23 Men	23 September	2:45pm
Junior men	23 September	9:15am
Junior women	24 September	8:30am

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Event	Date	Time
Mixed handbike	21 September	5:15pm
Women B	22 September	10:00am
Women C4-5	22 September	10:00am
Men B	23 September	12:15pm
Men C4-5	23 September	2:45pm
Women C1-3	24 September	11:00am
Women H3-5	24 September	11:00am
Men C1-3	24 September	11:00am
Women H1-2	24 September	4:00pm
Women T1-2	24 September	4:00pm
Men T1-2	24 September	4:00pm

The para-cycling TT courses come in two different kinds: either a copy of the elite women’s course from Gossau to Zürich, or an out-and-back route out of Zürich, along the lake, and then back. The women’s B and C4-5 and the men’s B and C4-5 tackle the 29.9km route that the elite women rode, with the significant amount of climbing involved. The next day, the other individual para events take place, with the women’s C1-3 and H3-5, and the men’s C1-3 and H1-5 heading south along the lake from the Sechseläutenplatz as far as Herrliberg. It’s 18.8km with just 36m of climbing.

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