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UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
UCI Road World Championships men's elite road race, the annual one-day race for the rainbow jersey, first held 1921, professional from 1927 (Alfredo Binda); 2026 won by Brandon McNulty in Montréal over 273.7 km.
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
UCI Track Cycling World Championships: annual track cycling world titles first held in Chicago in 1893; 22 rainbow-jersey events (11 men's, 11 women's); Harrie Lavreysen holds the record with 23 titles; France leads the all-time medal table.
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit
Men's individual pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships: a 4 km head-to-head track time trial, non-Olympic since removal from the Games, with champions including Taylor Phinney, Ashton Lambie, Filippo Ganna, and Josh Charlton.
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin
Men's keirin at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships: annual elite world title in the motorbike-paced six-lap sprint. Harrie Lavreysen won 2025 in Santiago; 2026 edition in Shanghai.
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's individual pursuit
The women's individual pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships is a track cycling event; Chloé Dygert won four titles and Anna Morris of Britain won in 2025.
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's keirin
The women's keirin is a paced sprint event at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, first held in 2002 and won since 2024 by Japan's Mina Sato.
UCI Track Cycling World Cup and Nations Cup host venues
The UCI Track Cycling World Cup and Nations Cup host venues lists the velodromes staging track cycling's annual world cup series, run by the UCI since 1993.
UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics (1993–2010)
The UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was an international track cycling series run by the UCI from 1993 to 2010/11, with up to six rounds per season.
UCI world records in endurance and mass-start track cycling events
The UCI ratifies no world records in mass-start endurance track cycling events such as the points race, madison, scratch race, or elimination race; only timed events carry records.
UCI World Tour
UCI World Tour, top tier of men's professional road cycling since 2011 (merger of ProTour and Historical calendars); 36 races, 18 WorldTeams on three-year licences decided by triennial UCI points ranking; women's equivalent launched 2016.
UCIe
UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) is an open industry standard for the die-to-die interconnect between chiplets in a single package, first released in March 2022.
UCLA Bruins
UCLA Bruins: athletic teams of the University of California, Los Angeles, NCAA Division I, Big Ten members since August 2, 2024 after leaving the Pac-12; 124 NCAA team championships, second-most nationally; John Wooden won 10 basketball titles; football plays at the Rose Bowl.
UCLA Bruins football
UCLA Bruins football: UCLA's college football team, Rose Bowl home, Big Ten member since 2024, 1954 UPI national co-champion; 5-0 under Bob Chesney in 2026, ranked No. 12.
UCLA Bruins men's basketball
UCLA Bruins men's basketball: UCLA's NCAA Division I team, Big Ten member since 2024. Record 11 NCAA titles (1995 most recent), 19 Final Fours, John Wooden's 10 championships and 88-game win streak, coached by Mick Cronin.
UCLA Loneliness Scale
The UCLA Loneliness Scale is a 20-item self-report questionnaire measuring subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation, introduced by Russell, Peplau, and Ferguson in 1978 and revised in 1980 and 1996.
uCloudlink Group
uCloudlink Group (优克联) is a Hong Kong-headquartered technology company, listed on Nasdaq as UCL, that operates a mobile data traffic sharing marketplace using its cloud SIM technology.
UCO Bank
UCO Bank, founded in Kolkata in 1943 as United Commercial Bank and nationalized in 1969, is a government-owned Indian commercial bank with over 3,400 branches.
UCoGe
UCoGe is a uranium, cobalt, and germanium compound that is both a weak ferromagnet and a superconductor at ambient pressure, pairing via spin-triplet, magnetically mediated Cooper pairs.
UCOME
UCOME (used cooking oil methyl ester) is a waste-based biodiesel grade in Europe, made by reacting used cooking oil with methanol in the presence of a catalyst.
UConn Huskies men's basketball
The UConn Huskies men's basketball program represents the University of Connecticut in Storrs and has won six NCAA national championships, in 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2023, and 2024.
UConn Huskies women's basketball
UConn Huskies women's basketball: University of Connecticut NCAA Division I program in Storrs, Connecticut, coached by Geno Auriemma since 1985. Record 12 national championships, 25 Final Fours, six perfect seasons, and the all-time college basketball coaching wins record.
UConsole
UConsole is a modular handheld Linux computer made by ClockworkPi, sold as a kit with a 5-inch screen, backlit keyboard, trackball, and an interchangeable compute module called a Core.
UCP2
UCP2 (uncoupling protein 2), also called SLC25A8, is a mitochondrial inner-membrane carrier discovered in 1997, expressed widely, regulating ROS, inflammation, and insulin secretion rather than thermogenesis.
UCP3
UCP3 (uncoupling protein 3, HGNC:12519) is a mitochondrial inner membrane transporter cloned in 1997, expressed mainly in human skeletal muscle and rodent brown fat; it mediates fatty-acid-activated proton leak, ROS protection, and fatty acid oxidation, not basal thermogenesis.
UCSF ChimeraX
UCSF ChimeraX is a free-for-academic-use molecular visualization program from UC San Francisco, successor to UCSF Chimera, first released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
UD Almería
UD Almería (Unión Deportiva Almería, S.A.D.), Spanish Segunda División club from Almería, Andalusia, formed 2001 from a merger. Saudi-owned since 2019: SMC Group with Mohamed Al-Khereiji since 2025, Cristiano Ronaldo holding 25%.
UD Ibiza
UD Ibiza (Unión Deportiva Ibiza-Eivissa), Spanish club from Ibiza city founded 2015 by Amadeo Salvo, refounded after paying €60,000 of the extinct 1995 club's debt; promoted to Segunda División 2021, now in Primera Federación Group 2, playing at Can Misses.
UD Las Palmas
UD Las Palmas, Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, Spanish football club from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria founded 22 August 1949 by a five-club merger; La Liga runner-up 1968-69, yellow-and-blue kit, plays at Estadio de Gran Canaria.
UD Trucks (トラックス株式会社)
UD Trucks, formerly Nissan Diesel Motor, is a Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in 1935, headquartered in Ageo, Saitama, and owned by the Isuzu Group since 2021.
Uda Devi
Uda Devi (उदा देवी) was a Pasi (Dalit) woman warrior of Awadh who fought the British in the 1857 rebellion at Lucknow, dying at Sikandar Bagh.