UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The annual world championships for track cycling, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale. They award rainbow jerseys to winners of individual events.

Track cycling: Bicycle racing on a banked oval track, with events ranging from sprints to endurance races. The championships bring track cycling's distinct race formats together in one annual competition.
Union Cycliste Internationale: The international governing body for cycling, founded in 1900. The UCI has organized the championships since their beginning.
Chris Hoy: A Scottish track cyclist who won multiple Olympic and world titles, including in sprint and keirin events. His repeated world titles made him one of the championships' defining modern champions.
Rainbow jersey: The multicolored jersey worn by a current UCI world champion in the champion's discipline. Winners wear it in their discipline until the next world championship.
Individual pursuit: A track race in which two riders start on opposite sides of the track and pursue one another over a set distance. It is one of the championships' timed head-to-head events.
1893 UCI Track Cycling World Championships: The first UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Chicago in 1893. This inaugural edition established the event's world-championship tradition.
Laura Kenny: A British track cyclist who has won Olympic and world titles in endurance events. Her world titles across endurance disciplines illustrate the range of women's competition.
Olympic Games: An international multi-sport event held every four years, including track cycling competitions. World-title performances can shape expectations for the Olympic track events.
Keirin: A track cycling race in which riders follow a motorized pacer before sprinting for the finish. Its paced start and explosive finish make it a distinctive world-title event.
UCI Road World Championships: The annual UCI championships awarding world titles in road bicycle racing. Road worlds are the parallel annual championship for racing outside the velodrome.

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