I agree it’s odd. My understanding is that if you win the gravel national championship in your category , you may race gravel worlds. The qualifier races ( which US nationals is not )only require a top 25% finish in category.
Qualifying for worlds trough national championships only applies for Elite. Age groupers only way is the world series.
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Thanks. And just to clarify, its a top 25% finish in a single race, or the entire series?
Any single race.
I only did Gravel Grit n Grind in Halmstad Sweden and qualified through that.
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Calendar updated: Calendar 2025 - UCI Gravel World Series
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Yeah, I heard on the Fun-Bound podcast this AM that the Mammoth Tuff was going to be a UCI qualifier for the US…
Still pretty disappointing for US riders. Either an early-season race (that is not in a very accessible location for many athletes) or a very late season race at altitude.
So much for 3 or 4 races for the US. 
Pretty bummed there’s only one qualifier for Canada (P2A), and its early in the season.
The UCI is definitely very EU-focused. The US arguably has a bigger gravel scene than the EU, so only 2 races doesn’t make sense. The same could be said for South America (only 1 race) or Asia (no qualifiers) but the cycling and gravel scene is much smaller there (as far as I know)
As a Belgian, I can’t really complain about this calendar. I have 6 events within a 3.5h drive from home (2 Belgium, 2 Netherlands, 1 Luxembourg and 1 Germany) and many more if I want to drive a couple more hours and stay a weekend at the race.
I’m a brit but for sure there should be 3 qualifiers in the US, the demand is clearly there for it.
It is expected that they’ll move the dates for the Worlds, currently clashes with the UCI Gran Fondo worlds on the same weekend. UCI gonna UCI.
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No kidding, the snow will barely have gone for some of us, lol.