Both teams emerged as the victors of last year’s event in Qatar’s capital city Doha and will be hopeful of further success a year on in Norway.

Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels, The Netherlands’ Niki Terpstra, New Zealand’s Jack Bauer and the Belgian trio of Julien Vermote, Yves Lampaert and Philippe Gilbert will take to the start-line for Quick-Step Floors.

They will compete on a 45.2 kilometre course in Bergen, which features a series of inclines and descents.

Quick-Step Floors are likely to face competition from BMC Racing and Team Sky, with the latter set to feature Britain’s Chris Froome, as he looks to add to his general classification victories at the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana this year.

Boels-Dolmans are expected to be the favourites for the women’s title, with the UCI Women’s WorldTour team having recently won the prestigious team time trial Crescent Vargarda.

Their selection for last month’s event included Dutch riders Anna van der Breggen, Chantal Blaak and Amy Pieters, Karol-Ann Canuel of Canada, Danish rider Amalie Dideriksen and Christine Majerus of Luxembourg.

A similar line-up is likely as they take to the start of the 45.2km race tomorrow.

The focus will then switch to the individual time trial events on Monday (September 18), with a junior women's event over a 16.1km course and men’s under-23 race over 37.2km scheduled.

The junior men’s and women’s elite time trial races will take place the following day, with both held over 21.1km.

Amber Neben of the United States won the elite women’s event last year.

Germany’s Tony Martin will then go in pursuit of his individual time trial world title on Wednesday (September 20), having prevailed in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016.

The men’s elite event will be held over a 31km course in the city.

Racing will halt the following day, with the UCI Congress taking attention as the governing body’s President Brian Cookson seeks a second term in the post.

He is being challenged by France’s David Lappartient, the European Cycling Union President.

Racing will resume on September 22 with the junior women’s and men’s under-23 road race events, with the junior men’s taking place the next day.

The women’s elite race will also be held on the penultimate day of the Championships, with Amalie Dideriksen of Denmark the defending champion heading into the 152.8km event.

Action will draw to a conclusion on September 24, with the men’s elite race.

Slovakia’s Peter Sagan will be seeking to win an unprecedented third straight world title, having triumphed in Richmond 2015 and Doha 2016.

Belgium’s Greg Van Avermaet and Gilbert are considered as potential rivals to Sagan, along with Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria and Australia’s Michael Matthews.

They will ride 12 laps of a circuit from Rong to Bergen, with an uphill sprint finish expected at the conclusion of the race.

At 267.5km long, the men’s race is the longest since the 1981 edition in Prague.