A new team trophy, aptly named The Summit, will debut at the UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Lake Placid October 2-4. In hosting this year’s final World Series event of the season, the UCI World Cup overall team winners are decided at Mt Van Hoevenberg (Cross-Country) and at Whiteface Mountain (Downhill).
Fittingly, The Summit will make its debut in Lake Placid and Wilmington, where the season’s overall UCI World Cup team champions will be crowned.
This new team finals trophy and the details surrounding it were announced in the following media release from UCI:
‘THE SUMMIT’ LAUNCHED AS FIRST-EVER UCI MOUNTAIN BIKE WORLD CUP TEAM TROPHY
A Team Trophy will be awarded at the end of the season to the top-performing team in each WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series format.
11 June 2026 – Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports is pleased to announce the introduction of a new Team Trophy, named The Summit, which will be awarded to the best WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series Team of the season in cross-country, downhill and enduro.
For the first time in UCI Mountain Bike World Cup history, teams will be formally recognized with a dedicated trophy, underlining their role as the driving force behind performance, progression and results. The Summit looks to reward excellence demonstrated across an entire season, earned by teams operating as one through collaboration, innovation and consistently high-level execution.
The team standings for each format are established at every round of the UCI World Cup, with riders registered to a WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series Team or UCI Mountain Bike Team contributing points based on their performance.
Across downhill, enduro and cross-country, rankings are calculated by combining the points of a team’s four highest-scoring riders across both Men’s and Women’s fields, and across Elite and Under 23/Junior categories. For cross-country, standings are based on the combined results from the cross-country Short Track (XCC) and cross-country Olympic (XCO) races.
Throughout the season, points from each round are accumulated to determine the overall team classification, with The Summit awarded to the team that finishes with the highest total points in each respective format.
In 2025, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and WBD Sports introduced significant updates to the UCI Regulations – reshaping the sport’s landscape, raising professional standards across the series, and connecting elite teams with broader global audiences. As part of this evolution, The Summit sits at the heart of WBD Sports’ wider strategy to elevate the sport’s leading teams, delivering consistent, high-quality visibility. Its introduction places greater emphasis on the collective nature of performance, while unlocking new opportunities to raise coverage and engagement for teams and their respective brands beyond individual athlete results.
The Summit has been officially unveiled today, Thursday 11th June, at the season’s first quadruple-header in Saalfelden Leogang – Salzburgerland (Austria). Crafted from sustainable oak and recycled materials sourced from the cycling industry (aluminum, acrylic, stainless steel and recycled carbon fibre), the trophy embodies the same philosophy that drives the the world’s top teams: progress without waste, performance with purpose, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Its defining feature, the carbon globe at the top, carries the same prestige as the Overall UCI World Cup trophy (The Globe), bringing teams and riders together under a shared symbol of ambition and global competition.
The trophy for the winning enduro team will be presented at the last UCI Enduro World Cup round in Morillon, Haute-Savoie (France) whilst trophies for the winning cross-country and downhill teams will be awarded in Lake Placid Olympic Sites, New York (USA), at their final 2026 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series event.
The WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series continues this weekend with enduro, downhill and cross-country action in Saalfelden Leogang – Salburgerland (Austria), followed by five back-to-back rounds across Europe. Click here to find out where to watch the action.
For more information on the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series visit www.ucimtbworldseries.com or download the official app from the App Store or Google Play.