The UCI have finally announced the dates for the 2016 UCI MTB World Cup and World Championship, with a return to Cairns scheduled for 23/24 April.

If you missed all the action and excitement of a wet and wild 2014, be sure to get up close and personal when the World's best off-road riders return to battle it out again in 2016.

Hopefully the weather will be much kinder to us the second time around.

2016 UCI MTB World Cup calendar:
APRIL
9/10 DHI - Lourdes, FRA
23/24 XCO, DHI - Cairns, AUS
MAY
21/22 XCO - Albstadt, GER
28/29 XCO - La Bresse, FRA
JUNE
4/5 DHI - Fort William, GBR
11/12 DHI - Leogang, AUT
25/26 XCM Championship - Laissac, FRA
28-3 XCO, XCE Championship - Nove Mesto na Morave, CZE
JULY
9/10 XCO, DHI - Lenzerheide, SUI
AUGUST
6/7 XCO, DHI - Mont Sainte Anne, CAN
20/21 Olympic Games - Rio de Janeiro, BRA
SEPTEMBER
3/4 XCO, DHI - Valnord, AND
6/11 DHI, 4X Championship - Val Di Sole, ITA