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How to watch gravel races around the world - A guide to livestreams and free broadcasts for UCI Gravel World Championships and final rounds of Life Time Grand Prix
Want to catch the action from many of the world's most audacious and prominent gravel races without getting the dirt and grime splashed on your face? This wasn't even an option three years ago, but now the new viewing options are opening up.
Early adopters for live streaming included US races Life Time Unbound Gravel 200 in Kansas and Lauf Gravel Worlds in Nebraska. In 2022, three of the Life Time Grand Prix events - Sea Otter Fuego XC, Unbound Gravel 200 and Crusher in the Tushar - attempted broadcasts but remote courses led to technical challenges which caused Life Time to pull the plug and only use social media posts for the final events.
By 2024, Lauf Gravel Worlds was one of the first races to launch a robust live stream for the pro fields at the 150-mile race in Nebraska, using action from start to finish on rough, secluded roads using extended flight-time drones, as well as stationary cameras mounted to jeeps.
This year several races in the Life Time Grand Prix have been streamed live, start to finish, and both the elite races at the UCI Gravel World Championships will also provide broadcasts for the elite races.
On October 10-11, live coverage for the fifth edition of the UCI Gravel World Championships will be broadcast around the world from Nannup, Western Australia. Races will be shown live in Australia on SBS, with streaming services and UCI YouTube in other countries (see below).
It's a double-header for off-road racing on October 11, as the fifth round of the Life Time Grand Prix gets underway in Bentonville, Arkansas at 08:00 a.m. CDT, with on-course video updates from the men’s and women’s races being shared on the Life Time Grand Prix and Big Sugar Classic Instagram pages, respectively. The next weekend, a full production for Big Sugar Gravel will bring action directly to you for the series finale.
Stay tuned to Cyclingnews for updates on other off-road events that will offer live feeds or social updates around the world.
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UCI Gravel World Championships
A TV camera follows Florian Vermeersch (Belgium) as he rides away to a victory at 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships in the Netherlands (Image credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
The UCI Gravel World Championships get underway Saturday, October 10 with the elite women taking the start at 10:10 a.m. AWST (local time) in Nannup. That translates to 03:10 a.m. in the UK and 10:10 p.m EDT in the US.
On Sunday, October 11, the elite men will compete, with the same start time and broadcast schedule.
The elite women will compete across 125.6km, with 3,179 metres of elevation gain, and the men will have an extra small circuit for a total of 144km and 3,713 metres of climbing.
Marianne Vos (Netherlands) was the runner-up last year, and could win her second gravel world title, but she'll have to hold off favourites Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Argentina) and Australians Nicole Frain and Tiffany Cromwell.
Races will be shown through their entirety in Australia on SBS, with streaming services and UCI YouTube (select territories). In the UK, watch the races for rainbows on TNT Sports / HBO Max, in the US and Canada, watch on FloBikes, all streaming services requiring a subscription.
Life Time Grand Prix
2025 Big Sugar Gravel winner Sofia Gomez Villafañe checks on chasers as she heads to the finish in Bentonville (Image credit: Life Time)
The fourth of the six races to provide live coverage in this year's Life Time Grand Prix is Big Sugar Classic on October 17, in Bentonville, Arkansas.
A full broadcast for both elite fields in 100-mile distances at Big Sugar Gravel will begin at 07:10 a.m. CDT, the elite men starting at 7:25 a.m. and the elite women rolling 10 minutes later. Multiple cameras and in-studio commentators will follow the action via the Life Time YouTube channel.
"It’s amazing to see helicopters and drones following races like Unbound and Big Sugar. It’s something I never imagined in gravel just five years ago," former Unbound Gravel 200 winner Lauren De Crescenzo told Cyclingnews last year.
The Grand Prix leaderboard is tight and it will most likely come down to Big Sugar Gravel to decide overall winners. Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Specialized Off-road) and Cameron Jones (Scott Sports USA) won the titles in 2025.
Broadcast schedule for gravel races in October 2026
Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. On the bike, she has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast), and spends time on gravel around horse farms in north Georgia.
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