The 2023 Road Cycling World Championships are part of the biggest cycling event ever as one of 13 World Championship events rolled into one festival of cycling in Glasgow and around Scotland. You can follow the action on GCN+ and Eurosport (via Discovery Plus) in the UK, FloBikes in the US, and for free on BBC iPlayer in the UK and SBS On Demand in Australia, so make sure you know how to watch for free with a VPN from anywhere.
The road events headline both weekends of the championships through the men's and women's elite road races. Road racing kicked off on August 5 in the junior road races the day before the highly anticipated men's road race. Time trials fill the week after before the events come to a close with the women's elite road race on 13 August. Glasgow and Stirling host the finishes for all the road events and will be the arena for some of cycling's biggest names. Denmark's Albert Philipsen took an explosive solo win in the men's junior road race, after Julie Bego rode away from the field in the women's race to claim the first road rainbow jersey of the championships for France. With the elite events still to come, look out for big names in Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel and Mathieu Van der Poel on the men's side, and Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes in the women's races.
Tomorrow sees the biggest road event of the 2023 championships as the elite men's road race gets underway. It starts in Edinburgh and finishes in Glasgow after 271km of brutal racing. Once that is done, the women's road race will be the biggest remaining race and takes place a week later. Scroll down to the end of the article for a summary of the timings for each of the medal events.
Road cycling is only one part of the Cycling World Championships 2023, and it will bring the best the sport has to offer to the roads across seven days of exciting racing. Luckily, with free-to-air options available in the UK and Australia, it is easy to watch. Below we explain everything you need to know to watch a Road Cycling World Championships live stream this year.
Watch Road Cycling World Championships live stream in the UK – for free
You can watch a Road Cycling World Championships live stream for free on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
Road Cycling World Championships live streams will also be available in the UK courtesy of GCN+ and Eurosport (via Discovery+).
Access to GCN+ costs £39.99 a year, or £6.99 per month. Alternatively, for Discovery+ and Eurosport coverage, the Entertainment and Sports pass is available for £59.99 a year, or £6.99 per month.
If you're abroad, meanwhile, you can download and install a VPN to watch your streaming service wherever you are – more on that below.
Watch Road Cycling World Championships live stream from anywhere on the planet
If you’re away from home for the 2023 Road Cycling World Championships, you might have a problem accessing your regular streaming service because of geo-blocking restrictions. Thankfully, there’s an easy solution.
If you’re not in the country for the Road Cycling World Championships, live streaming the events is still an option – all you have to do is download and install a VPN and use a location inside the United Kingdom to watch the broadcast live as if you were back home.
Setting up a VPN is simple – just download, install, open the app and select your location.
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Watch Road Cycling World Championships live stream in the US and Canada
In the US you can watch a Road Cycling World Championship live stream through FloBikes. A subscription to the service will cost you $149.99 per year.
Canadian cycling fans also have the option of watching a Road Cycling World Championshps live stream on FloBikes. An annual subscription costs $150 (CAD).
Watch Road Cycling World Championships live stream in Australia – for free
Australian viewers can follow Road Cycling World Championships action for free, as SBS and SBS On Demand will show the events live .
SBS will be showing the road cycling between 5-13 August.
Medal events timetable
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