The 2026 UCI Track Cycling World Championships kicked off on October 14 at the Shanghai Velodrome in Chenjia Town, Chongming District.<\/p>\n
This is the first time this century-old event, founded in 1893, has been held on the Chinese mainland and the highest-level international competition in Shanghai in 2026. A total of 45 teams and 399 athletes competed from October 14 to 18.<\/p>\n
The Championships featured 11 events each for men and women, covering sprint, endurance, and combined categories, with 22 champions.<\/p>\n
As the first qualifying event for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, it includes core Olympic events such as individual sprint, team sprint, keirin, team pursuit, Madison, and combined events.<\/p>\n
“The tracks are beautiful here and very smooth, and riding here is a pleasure,” New Zealand competitor Bryony Botha said. <\/p>\n
“I hope to come back again. We really want to win the race, and we will cooperate well as a team to try our best to achieve a good result in the team pursuit.”<\/p>\n
The Chongming Cultural Tourism Characteristic Intangible Cultural Heritage Market was set up in the eye-catching pink pavilions next to the main arena.<\/p>\n
Dozens of stalls displayed intangible cultural heritage handicrafts and artistic cultural products, while outdoor recreational activities took place.<\/p>\n
The Chongming homespun cloth handicraft kiosks featured stunning and photogenic homespun cloth appliqu\u00e9s and sugar paintings, as well as reassembled old homespun cloth into cloth bags, coasters, and keychains.<\/p>\n
Alongside display tents, food vendors set up in little tents that offered a taste of the regional cuisine of Chongming, including rice cakes, a complete lamb feast prepared from Chongming white goats, and local pig products.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Chongming fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural items were on sale for visitors to buy and take home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 UCI Track Cycling World Championships kicked off on October 14 at the Shanghai Velodrome in Chenjia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,4933,85],"class_list":["post-937714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-shanghai","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}