Celebrating its 35th birthday, the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships gather together the world's best cross country, downhill and four-cross riders each year. With 2025's event taking place across the Valais canton in Switzerland, below you'll discover how to watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams from anywhere with a VPN, and potentially for free.
UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams take place from Saturday, Aug. 30 to Sunday, Sep. 14. Full schedule below.
• FREE STREAM — Watch on Play Suisse
• U.S./Can — Watch on Flobikes (from Sep. 6)
• Watch anywhere — Try NordVPN risk-free
With riders competing for their country rather than a team, national pride is at stake for the competitors. Switzerland will be particularly keen to perform well on home turf after an atypically underwhelming result in Andorra last year in which they only managed a couple of silver medals. Nino Schurter and Filippo Colombo are both confirmed to compete this year, with high hopes resting on their handlebars.
France dominated last year's medal table and the likes of Victor Koretzky and Jérôme Gilloux are expected to be back to defend their titles. 2024 marked one of Team USA's best ever showings at the World Championships, headlined by their Cross-country Olympic mixed relay gold. Can they improve on that this year?
It's set to be another two weeks of exhilarating saddle action, so read on for how to watch UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams from wherever you are — including free options.
FREE Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams
If you live in Switzerland then you can look forward to a FREE Mountain Bike World Championships live stream in 2025.
SRG SSR is the official domestic broadcaster, meaning it will be streamed for free on its Play Suisse streaming platform. All you need to register is your email address.
If you're traveling abroad, you'll need to use a VPN to unblock your usual stream. We'll show you how to do that below.
Unlike in previous years, however, other free-to-air broadcasters like the BBC in the U.K. and SBS in Australia don't appear to be showing the event in 2025.
Watch UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 from overseas
Away from home and blocked from watching your free cycling stream?
You can still watch the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It's the best on the market:
Using a VPN is incredibly simple.
1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, NordVPN is our favorite.
2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance if you're in the U.S. and want to view a Swiss service, you'd select a server in Switzerland from the list.
3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to Play Suisse or another streaming service and watch the action.
Watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams in the U.S.
The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships is streaming exclusively on FloBikes in the U.S. — but not until Saturday, September 6.
Subscriptions cost $29.99/month on a rolling basis. Or, if you know that you'll want all of the platform's coverage throughout the year, get a $150 annual plan and save more than 50%.
Swiss resident visiting North America? Use NordVPN or another VPN service to trick your device into thinking you're still in Europe so you can watch Play Suisse's Mountain Bike World Championships streams for free.
Watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams in Canada
Just like south of the border, FloBikes is the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships broadcaster in Canada. It costs $39.99/month or $200 for a whole year.
Note that, like in the U.S., coverage on FloBikes only gets started on Saturday, September 6 in Canada.
Watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 in the U.K
Coverage of the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in the U.K. will be broadcast on TNT Sports. It doesn't look as though it will be comprehensive, however, and its schedule shows that action won't be shown there until Sunday, September 7.
To access TNT Sports, you'll either need to add it to your TV package, or you can take out a standalone subscription via Discovery Plus which will set you back from £30.99/month.
If you're currently traveling overseas, don't worry, as you can use NordVPN to watch from abroad.
Can I watch Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 live streams in Australia?
Australian residents were able to watch last year's Mountain Bike World Championships for free thanks to SBS. However, it looks as though that partnership has now ended.
And the news gets worse for cycling fans Down Under — looking at the schedules of Australia's prominent sports broadcasters and streamers, we can't see any sign of this event.
Visiting Australia during the championships? You can still catch the action on your usual streaming platform by using NordVPN.
UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2025 schedule
- Enduro & E-MTB Enduro: Aug. 30 - Sep. 1
- Pump Track: Sep. 2-6
- E-MTB Cross-country: Sep. 3-4
- Downhill: Sep. 4-7
- Cross-country Marathon: Sep. 6
- Cross-country Short Track: Sep. 8-9
- Cross-country Olympic & Mixed Team Relay: Sep. 10-14
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