2023 Glasgow World Championships seek to attract 1 million spectators to Scotland

The 2023 World Championships will be a very special edition, as several disciplines will come together in one event that will span over several days. Glasgow will be hosting the 'Super' World Championships, and looking to bring in very hefty crowds. 

Trudy Lindblade, the CEO of the 2023 World Championships, has told Velonews: “We would love to have if we can around a million spectators across the course of the championship. We think we can do that." Although ambitious, this is a possibility. The event will take place from the 3rd to 13th of August 2023 in Scotland, mainly based in the city of Glasgow. 

“We’ve got fabulous venues and across the 13 world championships, we’ve got kilometers and kilometers of roads where the local communities can come out and support the best riders and the best athletes in the world. How often do you get to do that? One of the really great things about cycling is that you can easily see the best athletes for free," she argued. 

The Worlds have been brought up to August to fit all disciplines, and events will include road racing, aswell as Track, Mountain Bike, BMX and several other minor categories of World Championships, with several different locations. 

The men's Elite Road Race will start in the country's capital of Edinburgh, unlike all other events. “Whilst it would have been very practical for us to have everybody starting in the same location, what we wanted to do was actually showcase the east and the west. So that’s why we’ve got the two different start locations," Lindblade justified. 

“We wanted to make it a little bit different. So to keep the variety there, it’s been a really good and interesting process to design it and to deliver what we think will be really, really interesting and beautiful parcours," she concluded.