Iowa City, IowaThe Jingle Cross Cyclo-cross festival, also known as Jingle Cross, is a cyclo-cross race held annually in Iowa City, Iowa, and founded and directed by John Meehan.
on January 28-30, 2022. We're are thrilled to have a World Championship back in the USA! If you are making the trip over to Northwest Arkansas, you can purchase your tickets, here. If you can't make it to the event in-person, you can watch all the races live on Global Cycling Network.
- 2022 UCI Walmart Cyclocross World Championships television/TV live and On Demand broadcasters/streamers include: UCI Channel, Sporza, Eurosport, Ceska TV, TV2/Sport.dk,... Links to come before the events start.
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The 3-day Jingle Cross Cyclo-Cross Festival October 15-17, 2021 in Iowa City is the largest cyclo-cross event in North America. Our marquis event is the Telenet UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup, a leg in the global cyclo-cross series featuring the world’s best cross athletes.
Friday Night Frights and Lights The Jingle Cross Christmas theme collides with Halloween as Friday Night Lights changes to Fright Night Frights, the biggest nighttime cyclocross party in the world with a Halloween flair! Watch the UCI C1 race and party to the fantastic selection of tunes from DJ Jay Herman spinning atop Mt. Krumpit.
Jingle Cross Flyover. The flyover is a popular cyclocross element that you might see at nearly every cyclo-cross venue. It serves as what might be termed a “functional” challenge. Some flyovers are ridable while others are made into stairs.
Mt. Krumpit has become legendary in cyclocross circles as the most infamous cyclo-cross feature in all of North America. It has features within a feature… The Krumpit Run-umpit, The Bobsled Bomb, The Frostbite Forest, The Luge Run, The Crumpet Klimb and The Alpine Slide.
New for the World Cup in 2016, the Chute is a straight downhill off camber descent takes the riders back down from the Krumpit Klimb and on to the third and final decent down Mt. Krumpit. It’s all downhill from here as riders pass through the North Pole field and onto the finishing straightaway and the finish.
The Cross Barriers are a standard in just about every cyclocross race. You can only have one set in a UCI course and they must be 10 meters apart with no more than 2 barriers. It used to be a rule that they had to be exactly 40 cm in height but that rule changed a few years ago so shorter barriers are popular…which invites bunny hopping! Our barriers are put right in the middle of the main field in plain site for all the Who’s of Whoville. Hurdle them on foot or try to clear them on the bike if you have the skills. Watch some of our videos and maybe you can learn the technique!
Luge Run. The Luge Run is the second descent down from the peak of Mt. Krumpit and it is certainly the most technical. With sweeping off-camber turns and a steep grade, the technical challenges will claim the less skilled riders as they sweep down the face of Mt. Krumpit and back towrds the South Pole.
UCI rules for a World Cup dictate a bidirectional pit area where team mechanics stay to help if their rider has a mechanical problem or needs a bike change. Riders will hit Pit 1 soon after the Holly Jolly Hell Hole. Then after a couple of times up and down Mt. Krumpit, they hit Pit 2 for the second pass by the Pit Area. The Pit is where the really cool team aspect of cyclocross is seen and makes it like NASCAR. A quick pit crew can exchange a bike so fast it looks like they never stopped pedaling. Entry and exits are always marked with a yellow flag. If you enter the pit, you MUST take service or exchange a bike or you will be disqualified.