TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ..................................................................... 2 MANAGEMENT & PERFORMANCE REPORTS ............................... 8 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) ............................................ 10 One sport, eight disciplines ................................................................ 12 Director General’s Report .................................................................... 16 International Relations ......................................................................... 26 A year of Sport and Events .................................................... 34 Road cycling .............................................................................. 36 Track cycling .............................................................................. 44 Mountain bike .......................................................................... 52 BMX Racing ............................................................................... 60 BMX Freestyle ............................................................................ 64 Para-cycling ............................................................................... 68 Cyclo-cross ................................................................................ 74 Trials ............................................................................................ 78 Indoor cycling ........................................................................... 82 The UCI World Cycling Centre ............................................................ 86 Cycling for All ......................................................................................... 94 Mass Participation Events .................................................................... 100 Clean Sport ........................................................................................... 102 FINANCIAL REPORT ............................................................................. 106 Commentary - UCI Chief Financial Officer ....................................... 108 Audit and Finance Committee Report to the UCI Congress .......... 112 Auditors’ Report on the Consolidated Financial Statements ........ 114 Consolidated Financial Statements - UCI and CMC ....................... 115 Notes to the Financial Statements ..................................................... 121 UCI WorldTour ....................................................................................... 141 Auditors’ Report on the Statutory Financial Statements ............... 142 UCI Statutory Financial Statements ................................................... 143 APPENDICES ......................................................................................... 148 List of National Federations ................................................................ 150 Management Committee and General Organisation ................... 154 Commissions and Judicial Bodies ...................................................... 158 2019 Results & Standings ..................................................................... 164 Table of contents | 1 To accompany the increased number of racing days per year, Together with the aforementioned funding, governance procedures sickness cover, maternity cover, life working group, we are analysing around the UCI Solidarity insurance and more prize money. the results of the consultation. Programme have been Based on the conclusions drawn strengthened by implementing The reform of men’s professional from this analysis, propositions regulatory changes via the UCI road cycling continued, with will be made to the PCC and the Constitution. Furthermore, the the Professional Cycling UCI Management Committee in UCI has set up an audit process Council (PCC) and the UCI 2020. with external auditors for the Management Committee giving Continental Confederations their unanimous backing to its Aside from road cycling, two on financial and administrative reorganisation in September other disciplines have been the matters. 2018, following several years with subject of reforms that bode very no headway being made. well for their futures: track cycling Staying on the subject of and cyclo-cross. solidarity programmes, we have Since 2019, only one international opened a new UCI WCC satellite ranking has been in use: the UCI Track cycling is one of the centre in Anadia, Portugal, and World Ranking, which has now biggest of all Olympic sports are looking to open three more become the benchmark when it but its visibility between Games in Africa and one each in Asia, comes to establishing who lies could be better, given its huge Oceania and Central America where in the global elite. potential. It is with a view to (Caribbean). maximising this potential that The UCI is continuing to work the UCI has undertaken a Women’s professional road with all stakeholders – teams, comprehensive review of how cycling has seen some very riders and organisers first the discipline is structured. As positive developments. The UCI and foremost – with a view to of 2021, the UCI International worked hard with all stakeholders launching the UCI Classics Series, Track Cycling Calendar will be to bring the reform approved one of the important elements organised around the following a little over a year ago into of the reform approved by all three major competitions: the force at the start of the 2020 concerned players. In delivering UCI Track Cycling Nations’ Cup, season. Women’s road cycling greater exposure for one-day comprising three rounds held now possesses a solid structure races than the UCI WorldTour, the between March and September; that will enable it to continue UCI Classics Series will provide the UCI Track Cycling World PRESIDENT’S flourishing, comprising as it an important source of additional Championships, held in October; does three event divisions: revenue, which will be distributed and the new UCI Track Cycling the UCI Women’s WorldTour, whithin the men’s professional World League, which will run the UCI ProSeries and the road cycling family. from November to February. UCI Continental Circuits. The first two of these divisions are We have also dedicated our The UCI Nations’ Cup – formerly obliged to comply with higher efforts to enhancing the appeal the UCI Track Cycling World In 2019, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) continued to pursue its Agenda 2022, organisational standards that are of professional road cycling. Over Cup – will provide countries with our Federation’s road map, which was approved by the Congress in Innsbruck, Austria, principally designed to enhance the summer, the UCI launched a chance to qualify for the UCI in autumn 2018. In doing so, we achieved progress in three main areas: the expansion event visibility. a major consultation process World Championships and the comprising a survey that gauged Olympic Games, while the UCI of our solidarity programmes in support of National Federations that need them, the We are now striving to ensure the opinions and expectations Track Cycling World League will development of cycling’s appeal and the strengthening of its credibility. that women’s cycling has its own of the general public on the have a TV-friendly format. benchmark stage race, one with issue. A number of people from a strong global profile, like the cycling’s many families were An agreement was signed with The September 2019 Congress in them. The International Relations Total spend on the UCI World men’s Tour de France. also interviewed and an ad hoc the media group Discovery, Harrogate (Great Britain) saw the Department was strengthened Cycling Centre, International working group made up of which will be entrusted, through number of National Federations and its management entrusted Relations and the UCI Solidarity We have also introduced two representatives of road cycling its various divisions (among affiliated to the UCI rise to 196, to Vincent Jacquet, who also Programme reached CHF 7 team divisions: UCI Women’s teams, riders, event organisers, them Eurosport Events and a record figure that takes us heads up our elite coaching million. Distributions through WorldTeams and UCI Women’s the media and broadcasters was Global Cycling Network), with ever closer to the target of 200 and training centre in Aigle, the UCI Solidarity Programme, Continental Teams, the first of set up. Much to our delight, the the management, TV production members by the end of my first Switzerland, the UCI World supporting the Continental which must meet the highest survey attracted a tremendous and distribution of the new term in office. The National Cycling Centre (WCC). Confederations and National standards, which will benefit the response, with nearly 22,500 series. Discovery’s expertise and Federations do a wonderful job Federations and funding riders in particular. With this in people from 134 countries taking know-how will make a major in their respective countries, and In 2019, we once again reinvested development projects, totalled mind, the UCI has introduced part. The results, which were very contribution to the development in 2019 we significantly increased record amounts in the global in excess of CHF 2 million, an a minimum salary and other revealing, were published on our and popularity of track cycling. the resources made available to development of our sport. increase of 47% since 2017. benefits for athletes: a maximum Federation’s website. This reform has been a long 2 | President’s Message President’s Message | 3 organisation,