World biking’s governing physique will use a GPS monitoring system for all riders on the Highway World Championships.

The UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) has confirmed the system can be launched to reinforce rider security on the match in Rwanda.

The trackers are being launched to ascertain the place of each rider following the dying of Muriel Furrer through the junior ladies’s race ultimately 12 months’s Highway World Championships in Zurich.

The 18-year-old Swiss bicycle owner crashed and was left unconscious in a wooded space for about an hour and a half as organisers have been unaware she was stationary and in want of assist.

The UCI has banned radio communications between riders and groups through the worlds for concerning the previous 15 years.

The security monitoring expertise was examined through the Tour de Romandie Feminin in Switzerland final month.

The UCI disqualified 5 groups from that race, exterior as they refused to elect one rider from their staff to check the under-saddle gadget.

The UCI mentioned the system will “allow real-time monitoring of information relating to the place and pace of the complete peloton, thus permitting for fast identification of any uncommon conditions, corresponding to a rider out of the blue stopping on the course”.

UCI president David Lappartient mentioned the system’s introduction “is vital and vital progress”.

The Highway World Championships will happen in Kigali, Rwanda from 21-28 September.