Reuven, who played a central role in the 2021 Road World Championships, will also award the rainbow jersey at the 2024 Gravel World Championships.

The first UCI Gravel World Championships were held in October from Vicenza to Cittadella, Italy, with France's Pauline Ferrand-Prevot taking the women's elite rainbow jersey and Belgium's Gianni Vermeersch the men's elite title.

The World Championships will be held again in Italy in 2023 and move to Belgium in 2024.

"Following the 100th World Cycling Championships in Flanders in 2021, we will now host the World Cup Gravel in Flanders," said Flanders Sports Minister Ben Waites.

"With our Brabants Uden as a beautiful green backdrop, we can once again show Flanders as a cycling country with great organizational talent."

According to organizer Gorazo, the riders will cross Brabants Ouden from west to east, starting from the start line in Halle, through Hallerbos and Zonien Oude to the loop to Meerdal Oude. There, elite riders repeat the loop "several times" before the Leuven finish.

Details of the courses and distances for each category have not yet been revealed.

Belgium will introduce its own gravel national championship in 2023 before hosting its first UCI gravel world championship in 2024, on October 15. This national title race will start and finish in Oud-Heverlee, through which the Meerdaalwoud, the finishing loop of the World Championships, passes.

"After being the first world champion, my goal is to be the first Belgian champion in gravel," Vermeer said.

"I also note the World Championships on the dot. I know this region from many cyclocross races in the past.

"There are a lot of altimeters here, and I can plot a very good course. With a mouthful of bacon, I'm already looking forward to it and I'm not the only one."