FIM X-Trial World Championship

The provisional 2020 FIM X-Trial calendar includes visits to Ecuador and La Reunion as the promoters consolidate the Championship’s geographical expansion.

Among the rounds that will take the world’s best X-Trial riders away from their European base in 2020 is X-Trial Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, scheduled to host the sixth round of the season on 29th February 2020. The event will also mark X-Trial’s return to Latin America, a crucial step in the planned growth of the sport that intends to include more countries in the coming seasons. The forthcoming X-Trial Quito will also create an additional challenge for the riders by visiting the General Ruminahui Coliseum next year as they will compete for the first time at an incredible altitude of 2,800 metres.

The newly released FIM X-Trial World Championship calendar also features a second venue outside of Europe with a first trip to La Reunion, located close to Madagascar to the south-east of Africa.

This 16th November date means that Toni Bou will start the defence of his title in 2019. In between these overseas fly-aways the regular European calendar is boosted by the inclusion of the new X-Trial Rennes, France, which will take place on the 23rd November 2019. Meanwhile four of last season’s venues are retained including: X-Trial Budapest (19th January), X-Trial Barcelona (2nd February) and X-Trial Bilbao (15th February) that keep their dates in the diary. X-Trial will also make a welcome return to Austria after a two-year absence for the fourth X-Trial Wiener Neustadt on 21st March 2020.

Once again the honour of closing the 2020 FIM X-Trial World Championship falls to Andorra la Vella, the spectacular scene of last season’s finale, which is back in the calendar on the 25th April.