After a difficult season for well-known reasons, race organizer Racement is once again presenting a packed downhill racing calendar for 2022. A total of 19 races from the iXS European Downhill Cup, iXS Downhill Cup and Specialized Rookies Cup. In addition to classics such as Ilmenau, Maribor and Pila, Bellwald is missing. No bike transport is possible in the Valais Bike Park due to the new construction of the mountain railroad.

On Sunday, 29 May 2022, the first Swiss Championships in the mountain bike discipline Short Track will take place in the center of Lugano. The event will be held as part of the Proffix Swiss Bike Cup on a tried-and-tested course.

Fabian Giger ended his career as a professional mountain biker at the end of the 2021 season. However, Giger will be back in professional mountain biking in 2022. The 34-year-old will be coaching the riders of "Thömus maxon Swiss Mountain Bike Racing" alongside Ralph Näf in the future and contributing his extensive experience.

In 2022, the Swiss MTB Pro Team will change from a mixed cross-country and gravity team to a purebred gravity team. The team management sees a lot of potential to make a difference in downhill and enduro, partly because there is a lack of young talent among both men and women in Switzerland. The team includes Ramona L. Kupferschmied, Samuel Scheider and Benjamin Weber.

After two years, the extremely talented Romanian Vlad Dascalu is parting ways with Team Trek Pirelli, but not with his bike. The 2019 U23 World Champion will therefore be racing for Trek Factory Racing in 2022. With a fifth place at the World Cup in Leogang, a seventh place at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and fourth place at the World Championships, Dascalu showed that he is also well on his way to the top at elite level.

In 2021, the Santa Cruz Syndicate team was down to just two riders, Greg Minnaar and Luca Shaw. After the departure of Shaw, rejuvenation was the order of the day and the most iconic downhill team has obviously succeeded. Minnaar, who is entering his 24th World Cup season, now names German Nina Hoffmann, Brit Laurie Greenland and junior world champion Jackson Goldstone (CAN) as his new team colleagues.

The mountain bikers show their best side at the Swiss Cycling Cross Championships in Steinmaur. Alessandra Keller wins the women's championship title by a clear margin of over two minutes. The men's title went to Kevin Kuhn, while European cross-country champion Lars Forster took the silver medal ahead of local hero Timon Rüegg. Monique Halter, Jacqueline Schneebeli and Dario Lillo won the national cyclo-cross titles in the women's U19 and women's and men's U23 categories.