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The world championships are one of the great events of the year, especially since the four beautiful rainbow jerseys that the champions will wear next season are at stake. In addition, this year marks 100 years of the first world championship held in Copenhagen in 1921 and, to celebrate it, this year's event is in Flanders, one of the great world cycling capitals. Everything is ready for an unforgettable week.

Individual Time Trial Men

Route: 43.4 km completely flat, ideal for specialists in long time trials.

Favorites: Stefan Küng (800), Filippo Ganna (800), Remco Evenepoel (1200), Wout Van Aert (1200), Stefan Bisseger (600), Edoardo Affini (400), Kasper Asgreen (600), Remi Cavagna (600) , Tadej Pogačar (1200).

Individual Time Trial Women

Route: 30 km completely flat, ideal for specialists.

Favorites: Marlen Reusser (600), Ellen Van Dijk (600), Annemiek Van Vleuten (1200), Lisa Brennauer (1200), Lisa Klein (800), Leah Thomas (600), Emma Norsgaard (1000), Juliette Labous (800).

Individual Road Race Women

Route: 157 kilometers make the event the longest women's race of the season, and the profile also includes 20 short climbs that add up to a total of 1,047 vertical meters in what constitutes a fully flandrian route. The start will be from Antwerp with a flat section before entering the first of the two circuits around Leuven that make up the race, which will be given several crossed laps. The final circuit includes the cobbled climb to the Moskesstraat (0.5 km at 8.9%) as the main hot spot.

Favorites: The Dutch start as big favorites once again and bring a real AllStars team, with Anna Van Der Breggen (1200), Annemiek Van Vleuten (1200), Marianne Vos (1200), Demi Vollering (1000), Lucinda Brand (1000) , Chantal Blaak (600), Ellen Van Dijk (600) and Amy Pieters (800). Other applicants include Lotte Kopecky (1000), Emma Norsgaard (1000), Lisa Brennauer (1200), Elisa Longo Borghini (1200), Elisabeth Deignan (1000), Grace Brown (800), Liane Lippert (800), Marlen Reusser (600) and Elisa Balsamo (800), although anything but a Dutch victory would be a big surprise.

Individual Road Race Men

Route: 268 km and 42 short climbs to add 2,562 vertical meters are the figures of the men's event, which will travel the same route as the women's, simply adding more laps to the two circuits.

Favorites: Wout Van Aert (1200), Matthieu Van Der Poel (1000), Julian Alaphilipe (1200), Tadej Pogačar (1200), Primož Roglič (1200), Joao Almeida (1200), Remco Evenepoel (1200), Peter Sagan (1000), Mads Pedersen (800), Ethan Hayter (800), Giacomo Nizzolo (800), Sonny Colbrelli (800), Matteo Trentin (800), Michael Matthews (800), Stefan Küng (800), Alexander Kristoff (800), Marc Hirschi (600), Kasper Asgreen (600) or Magnus Cort Nielsen (600) are some of the candidates for victory, although the list could go on and on.