The best XCO in the World meets in Chelva today

Once again, the Internacionales Chelva Gsport Challenge will be a reference point for the XCO world. The weekend of February 17 to 18, the Valencian town of Chelva will host the best teams and riders of the modality and will once again have a starting grid worthy of any World Cup.

First-class line-up at the Internacionales Chelva Gsport Challenge 2024

A well-worked route and its praised independent organization have made the Internacionales Chelva Gsport Challenge 2024 count once again with the highest UCI HC category and a UCI Junior Series race. All this is a great attraction for top-level teams and cyclists who have once again chosen Chelva for their season start.

During the race and previous days, Chelva will be filled with the colors of some of the best international mountain bike teams, such as: Specialized Factory Racing, BH Coloma Team, Orbea Factory Team, Rockrider Ford Racing Team, Trek Factory Racing, Alpecin Deceuninck, Primaflor Mondraker Genuins Racing Team, Canyon CLLCTV, KMC MTB Racing Team or Lapierre Mavic Unity.

If we talk about favorites to win, the starting line of the Internacionales Chelva Gsport Challenge will be full of stars with world champions, Olympic medalists and national champions.

In the elite men's race we can highlight names such as the Spanish champion and Olympic bronze David Valero; Peter Sagan, three-time world road champion; Samuel Gaze, current XCC world champion; Vlad Dascalu, current XCO European champion and winner of the last edition of Chelva; David Campos, XCC European champion; Ondrej Cink, national champion of the Czech Republic or Maxime Marotte, current French champion in XCC.

In the elite women's race, the podium will be equally contested with names such as Olympic champion Jolanda Neff; Evie Richards, UK XCO national champion and 2021 world champion; Sina Frei, current silver medalist at the Olympics; Raquel Queirós, XCO champion of Portugal or Yana Belomoina, winner in World Cup races.