The registrations for the 12th edition of our Colourful Yunnan Granfondo Cycling Festival opens on Thursday, 28 August at 13:00 Beijing Time. As always, it is recommended to sign up early to avoid missing out on one of the full tour bibs. This year, the stage race takes place from 1 to 8 November, but is preceeded by a Duo TT limited to 500 couples or 1000 riders in total.
Read MoreThe 12th edition of the Colourful Yunnan Granfondo Cycling Festival is about to be officially launched later this month. Taking place from 1 to 8 November 2025, the event will feature the same five cities as in 2024, but will be preceeded on Friday, 31 October by a new Duo Time Trial in Mangshi, which will not count towards the general classification of the GF Yunnan competition.
Read MoreYou can now sit back and relax in your armchair and look back at our amazing 2024 event with this great set of videos of the stages in Mangshi, Tengchong, Fengqing, Pu’Er and Xishuangbanna.
Stay tuned for updates on the 2025 edition, which as usual will take place early to mid November.
Read MoreStage 5 in Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, took place on wet roads initially, but the sun immediately came out to join the riders on their final 162km long challenge of this year's event. A serious ride with over 2500 hm on sometimes treacherous roads , partially damaged by heavier-than-usual mudslides over the past months. Lucky, as the ride progressed the sun appeared more and more, creating a wonderful setting for the finish.
Read MoreStage 4 of this year's event in Pu'Er carried the title "The Coffee & Tea Ride", but who could have thought that that was exactly what it would turn out to be. Heavy rain had been striking the Pu'Er area for days, causing mudslides here and there and generally creating unsafe road conditions for a cycling competition. However, our event's race director decided not to cancel the event, but to just neutralise the race under the principle of 'let them ride'. The more than 1300 participants were permitted to ride the full 106km course at their own pace, as long as within the cut-off times. No race, no results, no podium ceremonies. The decision was praised by the participants with applause upon announcement and 95% of the registered riders would later complete the Pu'Er stage successfully.
Read MoreThe Queen’s Stage of this year’s Granfondo Yunnan took place in Lincang/Fenqing, a small town nestled between high mountain peaks going up to 2500m above sea level. The stage course measured 156km with 3300 elevation gain. The weather forecast the night before showed a few chances of local rain showers, and that is what happened around noon - but never to the extent that the stage was in jeopardy. Race victory again went to yellow jersey holders Chen Hao and Li Si, confirming their lead in the general classification as well. The men’s mountain race was entirely coloured by Wang Jin, however.
Read MoreThe second stage of this year's Granfondo Yunnan had the same winners in Chen Hao and Li Si, both wearing the event's yellow leader jerseys. The Tengchong stage was 113km long and largely based on last year’s new course introduced during the separate GF Tengchong event. The race took riders to Simola, a famous tourist site but also a very technical part of this stage with lots of stones - even when these were in good shape. After Simola, riders headed back to the city, but just before entering it turned right towards Dong Shan, a novelty in our granfondo history. Dong Shan is the name of a beautiful mountain, ideal for cycling.
Read MoreThe opening stage of the 2024 Granfondo Yunnan saw a 9-men sprint after 113 km of riding around Mangshi City and then across Jiangdong mountain. Chen Hao timed his acceleration perfectly and won ahead of Yang Qian Bin and Wang Jin who joined him on the podium. First non-Chinese rider was USA’s Joel Bruner, 2’24” behind in tenth. Last year’s overall female winner Li Si again started with a victory. She finished more than six minutes ahead of Cheng Qiao Rou in the women’s race.
Over 1300 participants took the start in Mangshi, of whom 80% on the long distance course. Record participation numbers.
Read MoreThe 11th edition of Colourful Yunnan Granfondo Cycling Festival begins this Saturday with the first of five new stages in five different cities. Participants in the long distance category will ride 650 kilometres in total over challenging and mountainous terrain in southern and southwestern Yunnan. Despite a late opening of registration, the event was again sold out in less than 24 hours with approx 1300 people signing up for the full tour, and several hundreds more for one or more stages.
Read MoreThe 11th edition of our event features three new cities and five completely new stages. The annual wet season has again wrecked several sections of the race courses, but road repairs are ongoing and re-routes have been designed where necessary. Below are the five race courses for long distance and short distances categories in Dehong-Mangshi, Baoshan-Tengchong, Lincang-Fengqing, Pu’er-Simao and Xishuangbanna-Jinghong.
Read More
