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What to expect from the 2025 Crankworx World Tour
Locations and dates for the Crankworx World Tour in 2025 have now been announced. Find out what's in store for this year and get the lowdown on what the tour and the events on it are all about.
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The Crankworx World Tour will return in 2025 and this time around there will be three stops on the calendar for everyone's favourite festival of mountain bike riding.
Innsbruck is not on the calendar this year, but Whistler will be a big one as it celebrates its 20th anniversary as the final stop on the Crankworx World Tour.
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Where and when are the 2025 stops?
The Crankworx World Tour is a great spectacle at any of its locations
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What's the schedule of events at each round?
Women will continue to smash the Crankworx slopestyle contests
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Selected competitions from each stop of the Crankworx World Tour will be shown live on Red Bull TV in all countries. Replays of the Rotorua events can be viewed here, while the schedule for Cairns is as follows:
- Downhill: May 23, 2025 from 5am UTC / 3pm AEST
- Full Tilt: May 24 from 2am UTC / 12pm AEST
- Pump Track: May 24, 2025 from 8.30am UTC / May 24 from 6.30pm AEST
- Slopestyle: May 25 from 12am UTC / 10am AEST
- Dual Slalom: May 25, 2025 from 6am UTC / 4pm AEST
Please note that the schedule is subject to change, depending on weather conditions.
Broadcast details for the final round in Whistler will appear here when available.
While we wait for the rest of the details, why not enjoy the best of the action from Crankworx Rotorua 2025?
If you don't know what the Crankworx World Tour is all about, read on below for an explanation.
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So what exactly is the Crankworx World Tour?
The Crankworx World Tour is an international bike festival series that's promoted as the ultimate mountain bike experience for athletes and spectators alike. Its main premise is to bring together the best mountain-bike athletes to compete in elite-level competitions in a variety of mountain-bike disciplines in different destinations around the world.
The number of stops on the Crankworx World Tour in a normal year varies between three and four and in 2025 is set to be three, with Crankworx festivals taking place in Rotorua, New Zealand, Whistler in Canada and Cairns in Australia.
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What sort of mountain bike events do athletes compete in at a Crankworx World Tour stop?
Slopestyle's new king, Dawid Godziek, was crowned at Red Bull Joyride
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The events on offer differ from location to location but typically there are pro competitions in the following disciplines (click on the underlined disciplines to watch an example event):
Prize money is available for podiuming and winning events. To encourage pro-athlete participation across all location stops and in as many disciplines as possible, Crankworx has a King and Queen of Crankworx competition that operates every year. The male and female riders that accrue the most points across the entire World Tour take home a $20,000 CAD cheque alongside their King and Queen titles.
Click here for a more detailed explanation of what the King and Queen of Crankworx is all about. There are also Crankworx Championship titles awarded for five disciplines: pump track, speed & style, dual slalom, downhill and slopestyle. Again riders that accrue the most points across the World Tour in each discipline event are the overall title winner.
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The Crankworx World Tour isn't just about the pros
If only there was some way to tell who they were supporting
© Bartek Wolinski/Red Bull Content Pool
The Crankworx World Tour is a major draw for mountain bike fans who attend the stops. Besides spectating the bike sport on offer there is always lots to do around festival location sites. As well as having the opportunity to ride trails and routes nearby, there are also large expo and demo areas on site. A big attraction is the athlete signings and high-energy after-parties that go off nearly every night of the week-long festivals.
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