It was held in Heusden-Zolder in Belgium on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31 January 2016.
The championships featured five events, in addition to the men's and women's elite races there was a U23 men's and junior men's races, and for the first time, a U23 women's race.
Almost six years since the first allegations of “mechanical doping” in cycling the UCI, during the Women's under-23 race, for the first time in cycling history found evidence of technological fraud when they checked the bicycle of Femke Van den Driessche.
The UCI had been testing a new detection system.
The offence carries a minimum six-month suspension and a fine of between 20,000 and 200,000 Swiss francs.