The Mountain Bike World Championships took place in Valais from August 30 to September 14, 2025, bringing together eight disciplines for the first time. As a result, 1228 athletes from 60 nations competed for 27 titles and set a record number of participants. Now Valais 2025 is taking stock and looking to the future.

Ramona Forchini in second place at the finale in Gränichen and Fabio Püntener with his third Swiss Bike Cup victory defend their lead in the overall standings and win this year's Škoda Swiss Bike Cup.

Casey South and Paula Gorycka-Kurmann secured the victories in the last race of the Marathon World Cup in Girona on the occasion of the Sea Otter Europe. South beat Samuele Porro and Marc Stutzmann, while Gorycka came out on top ahead of Rosa Van Doorn and Amanda Bohlin. In the overall standings of the HERO UCI Cross-Country Marathon World Cup 2025, Andreas Seewald and Rosa Van Doorn took the trophies.

The triumph of Alexandre Balmer at the Iron Bike Race, who had registered at short notice, helped Hansueli Stauffer in his last elite race on Swiss soil. The man from Sigiriswil secured second place and thus overall victory in the Bike Marathon Classics for the second time. In the women's race, runner-up Anna Weinbeer also claimed overall victory by winning the final. Swiss champion Irina Lützelschwab came second.

Norwegian Kine Haugom and Italian Loris Revelli win the overall rankings of the European Downhill Cup. In the final races of the series in Kranjska Gora (SLO), Abigail Hogie (USA) and Matthew Williamson (GBR) came out on top.