The Swiss Epic is an annual mountain bike stage race held in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland.
It has been accredited as hors catégorie (beyond categorisation) by the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Joko Vogel, Dany Gehrig, and Thomas Frischknecht had the idea of a multi-day stage race in Switzerland whereby the Cape Epic in South Africa has been used a model.
In 2014, two months after the first edition, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) granted the hors catégorie.
[1] In 2018, the parliament of the Canton of Grisons signed a five-year contract with the Swiss Epic that they spend 300.000 CHF each year.