The eliminator  - a short, fast bike race, featuring a series of natural and artificial obstacles - joins mountain bike eliminator, trials and BMX freestyle park competitions at the event, due to run from November 8 to 12.

The action-packed event sees competitors race in heats of four, with the top two from each round moving on to the next, until four riders remain for the medal final.

The mountain bike eliminator was part of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in 2015 and 2016 but was removed from the Mountain Bike World Cup in 2014. 

The format had been on the World Cup circuit in 2013 and 2014.

It has been revived this year through the City Mountainbike series, which ran from May to September.

The format underwent its first international test at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup rounds in Dalby Forest in Britain and in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czech Republic back in 2011.

The inaugural Urban Cycling World Championships next month will include BMX freestyle park competitions, which was added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme earlier this year.

The Urban Cycling World Championships will begin with trials competition, which will run over five days.

BMX freestyle park will be held on the final three days of the Championships, while mountain bike eliminator competition will bring the event to a close on November 12.

Mountain bike eliminator races feature short and technical courses in heats of four riders at a time.

Former UCI President Brian Cookson, unseated by Frenchman David Lappartient at the governing body's Congress last month, said he hoped the Urban Cycling World Championships would help showcase the different formats of the sport.