Suncheon City Hosts the '2022 Asia Mountain Bike Championships'

Selected at the Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) General Assembly, to be held in the Yonggyesan area next October

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Heo Seok) announced on the 2nd that it has been selected as the host city for the '2022 Asia Mountain Bike Championships' at the Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) General Assembly held via video conference.

To attract this event, Mayor Heo Seok of Suncheon, Governor Kim Young-rok of Jeollanam-do, and Kim Young-gap, President of the Korea Mountain Bike Federation, signed a business agreement for mutual cooperation in February last year and have been working together.

The Asia Mountain Bike Championships is a UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) certified event and an international-scale mountain bike competition with about 2,000 participants including athletes and officials from over 20 Asian countries. The event is scheduled to take place over five days in mid-October next year around Yonggyesan Mountain in Suncheon, featuring cross-country and downhill races.

The cross-country race is a competition where rankings are determined by the time taken to complete a set course on long-distance unpaved roads with severe terrain variations.

The downhill race is the most spectacular and popular event, where competitors race down a slope at maximum speed, with rankings determined by the fastest times.

The city is currently developing a forest leisure sports complex on Yonggyesan Mountain in Seomyeon, and with the attraction of this event, plans to complete a total of three courses totaling 6.9 km?including two courses for cross-country and downhill that meet international competition standards?by the end of November with consultation from the Korea Mountain Bike Federation, aiming to successfully host the competition.

A Suncheon city official said, "With the 2023 Suncheonman International Garden Expo approaching, this will be a great opportunity to attract domestic and international participants to also attend the expo," adding, "Once complex facilities such as an MTB center are established in the forest leisure sports complex on Yonggyesan Mountain in Seomyeon, it is expected to greatly contribute to revitalizing the local economy by attracting mountain bike training teams and national competitions."

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