Bike Trials World Champions

Every bicycle trials world champion, year by year — the UCI Trials World Championship from 1995 to 2025, and the BIU world championships alongside it. Compiled from federation results, not from a secondary list.

UCI Trials World Championship

From 1995 the men's championship has been contested in two classes by wheel size — 20-inch ("mod") and 26-inch ("stock") — each awarding a full world title.

Before 1995 — under review

We hold championship results for every year back to 1986 — from Spanish and Czech press archives, a Swiss club press-book and a municipal chronicle — but not yet proof of which body awarded the titles. They are recorded in classes the UCI has never run (Senior, Cadet, Minime, Benjamin, Poussin), and for 1992, 1993 and 1994 our BIU sources name a different winner in every single class. That looks like one championship lineage reaching us down two paths, and until we can say which federation crowned whom, listing these years as UCI world titles would be a claim we cannot support. The results themselves are all in the championship archive, attributed to the events they came from.

Junior world champions

Youth age-group champions

The championship has long run age-group classes below junior level — Cadet, Minime, Benjamin and Poussin, youngest last. Many of the sport's biggest names appear here first.

BIU World Championship

The BikeTrial International Union runs its own world championship, with its own class ladder — Elite at the top, then Senior, Expert and Master. Several riders have held UCI and BIU world titles in the same season. We believe this is the only year-by-year BIU champions list published anywhere.

BIU Senior, Expert and Master

BIU numbered classes, 2024 onwards

BIU now runs numbered classes rather than the old Elite / Senior / Expert ladder. We list them as the results record them; the federation has not published a mapping onto the former class names, so we do not assert one.

What is missing, and why

• 2020 — no championship was held; the season was cancelled.
• BIU 1995, 2003, 2004, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2026 — we hold the individual rounds of these seasons but not the final classification. In a multi-round season the champion is whoever wins the classification, so naming a round winner as world champion would be wrong. These seasons are left blank until the classification surfaces.
• 1986–1994 — held back, not missing. We hold 680 championship results from those seasons, but they are recorded in BIU age classes, and three of the years carry a rival set of winners from our BIU sources. We will not publish a world title under a federation's name without knowing that federation awarded it.
• A ‡ marks a title where two of our source sheets for the same championship disagree on the winner. We show the better-evidenced name and record the other rather than hide the conflict — hover the mark to see it.
• BIU junior and youth age-group titles are not tabulated here, but every BIU championship result we hold is in the results archive.
• Blank cells mean the class was not contested that year, or that we do not yet hold its result. Tell us if you can fill one.

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