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The New WorldTour Points System Explained

Following complaints from numerous teams about the WorldTour’s promotion and relegation system, the UCI has published new regulations with significant changes. The rule amendment has been published less than a month before the start of the new 2023-2025 triennium, whose cumulative ranking will determine which 18 teams will be part of the WorldTour in 2026-2028.

In summary, there have been three important changes, which will be discussed in more detail below:

• The UCI points scale gives much more importance to Grand Tours and Monuments, as well as to stages in WorldTour stage races.
• The UCI World Ranking for teams, both annually and across the triennium, will take into account the 20 best riders of each team, instead of 10 as at present.
• Teams relegated by the sporting criterion will have automatic invitations in 2023 for the entire UCI WorldTour, except for the Grand Tours. In practice, this allows Israel – Premier Tech to receive automatic invitations to all one week WorldTour stage races, even though they did not qualify for them under the rules in force during the 2020-22 triennium.

UCI Points Allocation

The UCI has revolutionised the scoring system for the next three years (2023-2025), with the objective of incentivising the best riders to participate in the most important races. To this end, they have multiplied by a factor of 1.6x the points allocated to the Monuments and the Road Race of the World Championships and Olympic Games. The points in the general classification of the Grand Tours and the ITT of the World Championships and Olympic Games have also been multiplied by a factor of 1.3x.

However, the most impactful change is the value of stages in Grand Tours and the rest of the WorldTour stage races. Whereas before only the top 5 in a Grand Tour stage and the top 3 in the rest of the WorldTour stages were awarded points, in 2023 the top 15 in a Grand Tour stage and the top 10 in the rest of the WorldTour stages will be awarded points. In addition, a much higher value will be given on places of honour in the stages. For example, in 2022 an individual stage in the Tour distributed a total of 240 UCI points, whereas in 2023 it will distribute 935 UCI points, a 290% increase.

In the following image, you can see the new scoring system, with the new Monuments category, differentiated from the rest of the classics. We recommend you to download it in high resolution from here .

Based on the calendar contested in 2022, this change in the scoring system means that there are 28% more UCI points at stake (308,903 vs. 241,027). But as the scoring of the continental circuit races has virtually remained the same (except for a slight increase in points for the ProSeries stages), this smaller calendar will see its importance reduced. Whereas under the previous scoring system the continental calendar shared half of the available UCI points, in 2023 it will share 40%.

As we can see in the graph, the most important races (Grand Tour, Monuments and Worlds) will now have a much higher weight (36% vs 23%). This was a demand from many WorldTeams and even fans, although it will hurt teams that do not have automatic access to those races, like Uno-X. The new scoring system will also benefit ProTeams that have wildcards for WorldTour races in 2023 (such as Lotto, Total and Israel) over those that do not (Uno-X and the rest), as they will be more likely to keep the invitations season after season with immediate access to the most profitable races.

Also the weight of the classics (except for the Monuments) is reduced in favour of stages in stage races. In 2022, all teams at risk of relegation added a large number of minor classics to their calendar, but from 2023 they will have to look for more places of honour in WorldTour stages. The forgotten riders of the previous points system, breakaway stage hunting specialists and consistent stage race sprinters, are suddenly much more valuable under the new scoring system. For example, Hugh Carthy targeted breakaway stages in the second-half of the Giro d’Italia 2022, placing fourth on the stages to Cogne and Lavarone, earning him a paltry 24 UCI points.

Under the new system, Carthy would have scored 160 points across both stages, a 567% increase. In the bunch sprints, Alberto Dainese scored 108 points across the three weeks of Il Giro 2022, but in 2023 he would have scored 370 points for his victory and five top 10 placements.

While most of the changes are logical, the UCI has left the door open to some schedule ‘optimisation’. For example, Continental Championships outside Europe still award 250 points to the winner of the road race (more than a stage of the Tour) and National Championships (some with a very low sporting level) still award 100 points to the winner of the road race.

20 Riders Count per Team

From 2023, the UCI World Team Ranking, used for the relegation battle ranking and to hand out automatic wildcards annually, will take into account the top 20 riders per team instead of the top 10. According to the UCI, this “will help to reduce the pressure currently imposed on only a limited number of riders, which can lead to a number of negative consequences (risks of injury, excessive number of race days, temptation to doping, etc.)”.

To better understand the impact of the new measure, the following graph shows how the 2020-2022 ranking would have changed if the top 20 riders had been taken into account. Lotto Soudal and Israel – Premier Tech would have been relegated anyway, although Israel would have been much closer to salvation.

The teams most dependent on their leaders (Jumbo, Alpecin, Movistar or BikeExchange) would have added the least percentage of points. ProTeams with shorter squads or without 20 riders capable to score points, such as Uno-X, Bingoal or Q36.5, will also be disadvantaged in 2023. Teams such as Quickstep or UAE Team Emirates, with large race programs and a deep pool of riders capable of scoring points, should be advantaged by this change.

The Israel Rule

The latest and perhaps most unexpected change is the UCI’s decision to “gift” Israel with invitations to all one week WorldTour stage races in 2023. It is worth remembering that Israel Premier Tech finished third in the ranking that awarded the 2023 wildcards and had therefore only won the wildcards to the one day WorldTour races on sporting merit. The UCI has clarified that the measure is temporary only for 2023, “coming as it does after three years of significant upheaval due to the global pandemic.”

This emergency measure by the UCI has surely calmed down Israel – Premier Tech owner Sylvan Adams after the millionaire threatened to sue the UCI for the implementation of the relegation system. Israel are also a favourite for the Giro and Tour discretionary organiser wildcards, so they will not feel the effects of the relegation as much, with the Vuelta being the only major race they will likely be absent from in 2023. The extra invitation for Israel takes a wildcard away from the organisers of one week WorldTour races and hurts again modest teams like Uno-X, Q36.5 or Kern Pharma.

The only constant about the UCI points and relegation system is that it is always changing, this time at very short notice. In imperfect systems there will always be winners and losers from structural changes such as these, with teams like UNO-X surely aggrieved by new regulations that make their path to WorldTour promotion more difficult. However if the changes function as intended, there may be some positives for the fans, with teams like Lotto-DSTNY now incentivised to send superstar Arnaud de Lie to more major stage races rather than entirely focussing on a local calendar.

18 comments

Always a must-read! 👏🏻 In your personal opinion will the “Sylvan Adams” rule actually help his team score more points? their squad seems weaker than it was last year so i don’t see them scoring many points in the 2.UWT races, even if they send their best riders, what would hurt their ability to score points at smaller races that occur at the same time.

Also it seems like a bad decision from the UCI to publish the rules change a week before 2023 and not much earlier when teams could’ve had times to perhaps sign other riders or tweak the training program, well unless the teams were told about these future changes in advance.

Good article indeed.

And announcement is too late indeed.

The fact they have starting right (not obligation) is obviously a plus for Israel. Also the increased points are obviously an advantage I think. They have more GC guys than Total and Lotto. Lotto also only has 26 riders under contract.

Short term only those two teams and Uno-X matter. If they do a lot more races than some of the WorlTour teams, they will promote again. But being in the top 2 of the ProTour teams is crucial for that promotion.

Lotto should now hire extra racers and also fully use the advantages of its development team (Total does not have a development team).

Overall I like the changes, and think they are all going in the right direction. I wonder if they have overshot the mark on some of them though.

The increase in points for stage wins is great. A stage win at the TdF worth more than a ProSeries win makes sense. I’m just not sure placings down to 15 needed points though. Maybe points just to the top 10 would have been enough.

Counting the top 20 riders seems an overshoot as well. I agree that the top 10 was too few. Was the “reasoning” to make sure domestiques didn’t feel pressure ? Maybe just the top 15 would be better.

Maybe next year, or in three years, we will see refinements and adjustments again, perhaps backing down a bit on these changes.

Agree that top 15 would have been better.

Top 20 is really bad for the protour teams with only 20 racers (although their chance to end up in the top 2 or promotion spots is low).

Also Lotto is kind of forced to hire 4 extra racers to score I think. There are still some options, but they are limited. They could also promote racers out of the development team whose points then probably count when they race with the development team in .1 and .pro races? It might remove their opportunity to do .2 races?

As for the top 15 spots that count in the Tour de France I like it for Tour de France as those positions still count for the Green Jersey. And for other stage races it is logical only the top 10 counts.

For the one day races, up the top 60 counts. I think that should be changed. For 1.1 races, you could count top 20, for 1.pro top 30, for 1.UWT top 40 and for monuments top 50.

Or even less points: top 10 for 1.1., top 15 for 1.pro, top 20 for worst UWT, top 25 for best UWT and top 30 for monuments. I am suprised they didnt change points in the one day races.

The reasoning is that under the old system we reached a point near the end of the year where riders outside the top 10 on good form had to domestique for riders in the top 10 because otherwise they wouldn’t score any points.

Indeed. That was bad. It had to be more than top 10 racers, but 20 seems too much.

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Silly question, if you will: are all WT teams safe now until the next triennium in ‘26, or do we go again next year, for the final year of the past three? PS, I refresh this page most days for the next instalment, keep up the great work.

Everyone keeps their WT license for the next 3 years based on the promotion / relegation system. Of course some teams may fold or lose their license for financial or other reasons, but promotion / relegation is only on a 3 year cycle.

The wildcards for the Proteams like Lotto, Israel and TotalEnergies is determined annually though

Brilliant, thanks…and Merry Christmas

En principio me pareció que aumentar la puntuación en carreras WT era necesario y merecido, en cuanto eso me parece correcto, sin embargo el análisis conlleva al problema de la factibilidad de que los actuales equipos WT de desempeño medio bajo y Pro con invitación a las pruebas WT se mantengan ahí sin afanes y muy cómodos, y que equipos ProTour (especialmente los de licencias distintas a la española, francesa, italiana y belga) se vean tan damnificados en aspirar a ascender de categoría que tal vez varios prefieran migrar próximamente a continental. Creo que con esto se crea un veto.

Los cambios favorecen la estabilidad de los equipos WT y dificultan los cambios y los ascensos. De todos modos, está bien que se mantenga el sistema de ascensos y descensos después de tantas presiones. Si los equipos de segunda división hacen bien su trabajo seguirán teniendo sus opciones de ascender, aunque sea un poco más difícil.

Muchas gracias Raúl. Tremendo trabajo. Este post es de lectura obligatoria para cualquier persona que siga el ciclismo profesional.

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UCI Points and Rankings Explainer

Richie Porte has just won the Tour Down Under and collects 500 UCI points, as many if he’d won Paris-Nice or the Tour de Suisse. A rankings system in pro cycling often seems pointless, it’s a synthetic means to compare stage racers, sprinters and others who often only compete indirectly with each other. But UCI points can be a currency and the quest for points is a tactical fact. So here’s a look at the points per race and more.

To rank the riders, first rank the races 500 points for winning the Tour Down Under, the same as the Tour de Suisse. Is this right? You probably have a view. You may not agree with the UCI’s attribution of points for certain results but they’re a fact. It’s this that counts and it’ll explain some tactics in the coming season. With this in mind here’s a walk-through of the UCI rankings and how points are allocated. It feels useful to set this out because it’s not obvious on the UCI website, the rankings page doesn’t mention it and instead you have to go to the rules page and download the correct PDF of the UCI rules and then go to Chapter 10 to find the relevant bit. It’s a stretch to say it’s buried but it’s hardly at your fingertips in a few bullet points… so here goes:

• It’s called the UCI World rankings, all male riders are ranked
• There are obviously rankings for women but since this niche blog is mainly about the main men’s road races, we’ll cover the men’s rankings here
• It’s a rolling 52 week ranking
• There are also separate one day race rankings and stage race rankings if you can find them
• If riders are tied on points they’re then ranked by wins and if still tied, by placings so there should be no riders on equal rankings
• There’s a national ranking too and with the likes of France and Italy having over 50 riders each in the World Tour this is countered by the rankings being based on the first eight riders from each country
• Teams are ranked on the basis of their 10 best riders so support riders who help to set up their leader don’t get direct rewards but the work can deliver for the team’s rankings
• In a team time trial the race or stage’s points are divided among the riders who finish the TTT.

Now onto the rankings tables themselves. The first table below shows the points on offer for all the World Tour races. As you can see the Tour de France is the prime event, then come the other two grand tours, then a mix of stage races and one day races and a win in the GP Québec is deemed as valuable as winning Paris-Roubaix, or the Tour Down Under isn’t equal to the Tour of the Basque Country, it’s actually even higher rated. But save the boos and hisses, it is what it is. You can see points go down to 60th place. Note the final column on the right includes all the newly promoted World Tour events… as well as the absent Tour of California.

Next and you can see below how much winning a stage is worth in points terms, again the same categories of races apply. As you can see, the Tour de France commands a premium and a stage win in a grand tour is deemed equivalent to 12th place meaning it can be worth trying to win a stage but a tenth place overall is quietly more valuable. Similarly Porte winning the overall in the Tour Down Under is worth more all his stage wins on Willunga and by some way.

Next up there are points for winning a jersey outright in the grand tours as you can below, it’s worth the same as winning one stage along the way too. It’s only for the grand tours so winning the mountains jersey in the Dauphiné is literally pointless and the white jersey competitions and other varieties are excluded.

There are also points on offer for wearing a jersey each day too, here’s the breakdown below.

Next comes the points on offer from winning events outside the World Tour, so win a one day Pro Series race, the new label for HC races, like the Giro dell’Emilia and it’s the same as winning the overall for an Pro Series stage race like the Tour de Yorkshire and so on, and then fewer points down the Under-23 “U” races with the Tour de l’Avenir as the prime event and U23 Nations Cup races getting a premium too. Also below this table are the points on offer for stage wins and the table for wearing a jersey.

Next up is the table for the Continental Championships, for example the European Championships won by Elia Viviani. It’s not just a title and a distinctive jersey but there’s 250 points for the winner – double winning a Tour stage – which makes it valuable, enough to attract riders to take part but also as these continental confederations are part of the UCI’s structure, a way to ensure the UCI’s own events are valued too. And if there’s a team time trial then you can see the added table below too.

If the continental championships are related to the UCI’s structure, below is the table for the World Championships which is an event owned by the UCI, plus the Olympics on the road too. As you can see, the road race is valued at almost twice that of the time trial and with 600 points on offer the road worlds is the single most lucrative one day race on the calendar, a full 100 points than a Monument classic.

Lastly comes the new mixed relay time trial at the worlds. This event has replaced the pro team time trial with a relay race ridden by a team of women and a team of men from each country and the winners get 300 points each.

The value : You may not care too much for the rankings, you may question the relative importance attributed to different races but the UCI ranks teams and it matters. Last year Total Direct Energie won the right to start all the World Tour races they want by finishing as the top second tier team and Circus-Wanty Gobert have made this a goal for the year. It’s also an issue for the World Tour teams as if they don’t score enough points they can see their licence under review.

Conclusion The rankings maybe near meaningless to fans – perhaps they’re meant to be, you need to root around on the UCI website, find the right PDF, scroll to the right chapter – but they matter to the riders, team managers and agents. For fans, the media and others there’s an implicit ranking of races based on prestige, history and other more subtle factors and arguably these count for a lot more… but all the tables are listed above so if you want to look them up for reference during the season here they are.

69 thoughts on “UCI Points and Rankings Explainer”

A point on methodology rather than principle. The PCS site, widely used by readers of this site I assume, also has a parallel PCS points ranking, interestingly extended to former riders and thus enabling a comparison, for example, between Peter Sagan et Alfredo Binda (Alfredo narrowly ahead for the moment). Maybe, if the UCI site could match the PCS site for ease of use, the PCS points system would become redundant. Do any site participants know the reason for this second ranking system which scores races and placings in similar proportion?

If the UCI site was more user-friendly it could help – half the point of this blog post is so I can have the tables for the rankings on one page to download – but I still think ranking cyclists says more about the rankings than it tells us about cyclists, ie it tells us a UCI committee rates the GP Québec as equal to Paris-Roubaix etc but doesn’t tell us much about the cyclists, eg today Jasper Stuyven and Steven Kruijswijk are rated as equal riders each on 1230 points but who would compare them?

I wonder though, is the points system a way of the UCI wrestling some control back off ASO (say)?

Rank the events by how we perceive them, and not only do the other events suffer (eg the TDU is arguably better off for the raking points), but the UCI slowly increases its leverage over the “Classics” etc.

Only so long as ASO and RCS consent to leave that power in the UCI’s hands by having their races as part of the WorldTour structure.

They can threaten to withdraw their races from the WorldTour system and register them at Hors Classe level, where would no longer be subject to the rankings system and can choose who to invite to race.

ASO has a number of sponsors which benefit heavily from cycling continuing to have global exposure, so they are probably quite happy with the premium offered to the overseas WT races in Australia and Canada.

Is the PCS ranking not simply the PCS site owners’ view of which races are most valuable? Ditto the CQ rankings.

So if the UCI rankings happen to track closely to the PCS or CQ ones, that’s nice, but PCS and CQ are ultimately doing their own thing?

If you have the WT system I can understand the benefit of a points system to rank teams, and guarantee spots in the WT races, but they shouldn’t bother collating / publishing an individual rider ranking as it doesn’t mean anything to anyone. Who won last year? I’d guess Roglic but it added nothing to the sporting contest of any WT event so what’s the point?

Every time I see the points system it raises an eyebrow that coming third in the TDU is worth more points than winning Omloop or Strade Bianchi. I appreciate the TDU for what it is, but it seems a little out of kilter, especially in relation to Strade Bianchi which is now arguably pushing Amstel as the sixth most prestigious one day race (not including the Worlds).

Its not only races like the Canadian, and TDU that should be relegated from 500 to 300 points. Amstel, GW, Romandie should be relegated from 500 to 400 points. Pologne, Hamburg, Harlebreke, Bink-bank, Sebastian and Bretagne should be relegated from 400 to 300 points. Move up Het Volk from 300 to 400 points. Its a significant race and like Lombardia closes the season when the leaves are faling, Het Volk anounces that spring is comming and the start of the season.

Additional thoughts from a radical conservative point of view:

Differentiate between Giro and Vuelta – the later is a much less contested GT and should not give 850 points. Reduce it to 750. (and before 95 the Vuelta was a warm up race for Giro and TDF) + Reduce the points given for stagewins in Giro and Vuelta.

500 points should really only be granted to the 5 monuments and Tour de Swiss so we need another category. Lets say 600 point for a monument and TDS.

Why specifically the Tour de Suisse? Can’t see how that’s a more prestigious stage race than the Dauphiné (usually a better field), for instance. Nor P-N, T-A, etc.

These are “thoughts from a radical conservative point of view”. TdS for many years has been widely considered as the fourth Grand Tour or at least the most important of one week races.

TDS: Was the most pristigious non-GT for +80 years. The most contested non-GT The longest non-GT. Its older than Vuelta Espania and was never a ‘national’ race like the Vuela (or Amstel) – it was an important race from the beginning.

Present place on the calendar is new where everything is squized arround ASO’s races. The important stage race calender used to be: Vuelta, Giro, TDS & TDF.

TA and Paris-Nice are the first meaningfull stage races of the season (like Het Volk) before the Classics – and always has been. Dauphine is a training race and always has been.

Interesting, thanks. Nowadays, TdS is very much a training race, a la the Dauphiné.

TdS lost all credits when they tailored it a race Cancellara could win. Tour of the Alps with no flat pieces and no TT is way more interesting than last 10 TdS combined.

“(like Het Volk)” +1 Just to stress a radical conservative point of view.

Regarding 3rd in TDU compared to winning Omloop or Strade, this highlights another problem with ranking systems in cycling. All of them over-reward places compared to wins in nearly all categories. This is taken to silly extremes in the careful separation of 6th from 10th and even 15th from 17th which is bean-counting gone mad.

This can be solved.

For a start, the team ranking should be calculated on the best position achieved by any of the team’s riders in each race/stage (except for the winner’s team, which could take the points for their two best riders) and not by adding together the team’s best individual rankings. This would discourage ‘riding for points’ as it would be impossible to calculate the points available by combining combinations of minor placings.

Then you can recalibrate the points scale so all races other than 1.2/2.2 are awarded some multiple of the following scale (i.e. multiply by 10/8/5/3 for the WT races according to the current table columns, 2 for ProSeries and 1 for Class 1) 1st place: 100 2nd: 60 (i.e. 60% of the winner’s points) 3rd: 45 (45%) 4th-10th: 35-32-30-28-26-24-22 11th-20th: 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11 Finishers below 20th: 10 points

Stage result and points/KOM for grand tours: 20-10-5 Jersey rent per day: 10

Perfect article to publish following on from TdU musings. Thank you INRNG. Agree with your ‘it is what is’ stance on this. Seems likely the UCI wishes it wasn’t starting from here. When it comes to devising any system, there’s always going to be other ideas. Makes you wonder what organisers do to work the room whenever these points tariffs are being set. It’s horrid to see your favourite races compared by being rated in this way, but it’s inevitable.

I have no opinion on points for one day versus multi day or grand tour. That’s such a subjective subject. Some may say a 1 day classic is worth more than a 7 day tour but others who prefer the tours may wonder why a one day race is worth more than a 7 day race. I don’t really care. Point system is the points system. But of course all races of the same level should carry the same points. The same as in any sport. Firstly this encourages the new events or lesser known events to keep developing not being relegated as second rate (the promoters need a return on investment) but encouraging the event to get as much attention and good level competitors as possible for that event. But secondly lots of sports have certain events which are deemed more prestigious then others. But that’s all they are. They keep the same number of points. Monaco used to be the most prestigious F1 race but it carried the same number of points as all the other events. Old events may eventually fall because of economics and if you never get new events you will end up with a very spartan calendar indeed. We have lost many races over the years and new events in new places have to be encouraged to keep the sport going. Note that the UCI cannot possibly supply unlimited $ to keep everyone’s fav races going.

Not every sport ranks wins equally: * Men’s tennis has 5 different levels for its main tour, from the Grand Slams down to the likes of the Adelaide international, and another 5 for its challenger tournaments, *Endurance motor-racing gives more points for Le Mans 24 than the other races, * Golf has a load of different levels, based on the strength of the field, * other individual sports rank by prize money, which obviously varies quite a lot.

The main issue I find with the UCI system is that it tries to compare one day races, GCs and stages on the same scale. 3 different rankings would make sense to me.

The big problem with having a points system is that it encourages teams to ride for points. Ergo, a rider might be told by their team to ensure they get a top 5 placing (if, let’s say, they’re in a breakaway) rather than going all-out for a win. There are multiple scenarios where points could encourage negative racing.

This can happen especially with the smaller teams. You can see Wanty-Gobert try to place several riders in the top-10 of a sprint sometimes rather than have two riders leading out the fastest rider to try and win or more realistically get a podium place.

This is caused by the calculation of the team ranking being the sum of the team’s best 10 riders’ individual rankings over the course of the year.

A better method would be solved to having the team awarded the points won by their best placed rider in each race/stage – including those won by riders racing for a national team, to act as an incentive for teams to release riders to race in national colours.

Agreed – the worst part of this in my opinion is if you take a rider like Nairo Quintana for 2019. He didn’t win anything of note, and solely rode to some high placings in the stage races he did. However, his ranking is much higher than both Mads Petersen and Alberto Bettiol. Ridiculous. The ranking must be weighted towards winning.

Placings needs to be significantly lower than it is. I want to see the top 20 include riders who won the biggest races and then riders 21-300 can be filled with riders who placed in all the races. But their total points needs to be significantly lower than someone who won Flanders.

Eg. take a rider who came 8th in the Tour, which means some high placings on climbing stages and potentially 1 stage win. This same rider may have podiumed one shorter stage race and then had top-10 placings throughout the rest of the season to build for the Tour. In my opinion the maximum number of points that rider should be able to pull should be 800 or something. Then winning Worlds should be 1,100, a Monument 1,000, a Classic is 900. In this world, Nairo Quintana would be ranked below Bettiol and Pedersen.

What about the rider who won a stage in two Grand Tours and a stage in one short stage race? Should we rank him below a rider who won two one-day races, if one of them is a World Championship? And should we rank him below a rider who one one-day race, if it was a Monument? I can see the point of ranking a one-day race, even if it’s “only” a Classic higher than a stage in a Grand Tour – but if we want the ranking to be more weighted towards winning, shouldn’t the victories add up? Or should we regard a victory in the Worlds or a Monument as a card that trumps all hands that lack a card of the same value?

Definitely. If you win 2 GT stages and 1 P-N stage, that value should be smaller than 1 Monument win – and it currently is this way.

Monuments, World Championships and the Yellow Jersey are the most important wins on the calendar. The points need to reflect that. Then comes Classics, then comes secondary stage races and semi-classics. Then, and a long way down are jersey holdings, placings (2nd-onwards), etc.

The rankings are calculated on a week-on-week basis though, so they’re meant to reward consistency and season-long endeavour not just performance on a given day. Taking last season in its entirety, Quintana was far stronger than Pederson or Bettiol and his final ranking rightly reflects this in my view.

Ecky – interesting that you think Quintana was far stronger than Pedersen/Bettiol – but I disagree entirely. Bettiol’s Flanders was a great race, and he had a very strong season too. Pedersen’s Worlds win was a beastial ride too.

Overall Quintana had a solid season, but there weren’t any special results.

CA, the way I see it the season you call “very strong” had exactly three peaks: in March two podium stage finishes in Tirreno-Adriaco, in spring classics one victory and two top ten finishes, and in June., two podium finishes in the nationals. Not bad – and the victory was in a Monument, no one wants to diminish that achievement – but the rest: muddling through, resultwise, doing the work but nothing more.

Nairo Quintana scored victories in two different Grand Tours and top ten GC finishes in both and in three short WT stage races. Not what I’d call a very strong season, but I wouldn’t argue against someone calling it a strong season – even if I don’t think it was strong by Quintana’s standards.

Comparing Bettiol’s and Quintana’s seasons is not easy (or indeed any pairing of a non-GC and a GC rider) but there’s definitely more to it than letting the memory of one week colour the impression of the whole season:-)

For me, all this show is that we don’t need a points system, same as we don’t need a World Tour. Races stand alone: there’s no need to create some supposed ‘league’ that groups certain events together, nor a points system within that. Let the races be separate, as they always have been, and let the race organisers decide which teams ride.

Counterargument: lack of certainty regarding team standing and invitations to races provokes uncertainty in a sport that relies on patrons sponsoring the team in lieu of your name on XXX event.

How much more likely are you to invest on a team that’s guaranteed to provide publicity for your brand on the Tour de France Vs. racing on Poland on the same days?

I don’t agree with the current rankings, but I do understand why we need a system to provide some level of assurance to teams that they’ll be able to present their pitch to investors/sponsors, as well as to plan ahead with your roster, training plans, etc. See what happens to the wildcard invitations to major races – this is a life and death decision for small/medium teams trying to attract investment.

The biggest opportunity for improvement would be in the access of second-division teams to major WT races.

Currently we have a system of 19 WorldTeams, 1 ProTeam which gets access to all WT races and 1 ProTeam which gets access to WT one day races.

I’d like to see this changed up to see a gradual reduction to 16 WorldTeams, with pre-allocated access to all WT tours for 3 ProTeams and WT one day races for 4 ProTeams. I’d also like to see a system of rolling WT licence renewal/promotion instead of them all coming up at once.

But instead of these positions automatically going to the top ProTeams from the previous year, there should be a ‘draft’ for the top 8 ProTeams to select the races they most want to attend so that a wider variety of ProTeams can get exposure at bigger races. This would create a more progressive path towards racing at the top level, in turn helping to make a more competitive second tier.

I was expecting to be horrified by the points catagorisation, but I am not scandalised in the slightest. The UCI could wield the points as a means of encouraging attendance at certain races, and therefore promote cycling in particular regions. I expect that this is why the TDU gets 500 points. Pull those points away and the competition evaporates, and any cycling initiatives in that country become stale baguettes. The UCI has a responsibility to its members and to have a global focus so I can appreciate the rankings. It’s clear though that the GTs take pride of place in the UCIs trophy cabinet. Perhaps the unfair aspect is that many Pro-conti teams miss out on these points bonanzas. My only criticism is perhaps the biggest one day races (Paris Roubaix, MSR and ToF) could have equal footing to the TdF. Going back to the TDU, the biggest issue appears that it is owned by the Government of South Australia, and perhaps Australia needs a Tour of Australia, to showcase much more of it’s riches (including Tazmania) which could give rise to a far more interesting parcours.

With a bit of time and a list of stages, i could probably name all the TDF stage winners from the last few editions. 120 points each. The TDU ended 3 days ago, and I can’t remember who finished 8th, if I even ever saw it anywhere. That lucky rider gets 125 points. Fair?

There IS a problem with points allocation, and it comes from what you’ve mentioned – it is used as leverage to promote races that lack the interest of WT teams, instead of reflecting the importance/popularity of established races.

That means that top WT teams can safely ignore them (sponsors don’t care since nobody takes them seriously) while the smaller WT / bigger Pro Conti teams need to send their best riders, change their fitness plans, etc. or risk being relegated/missing out on promotion.

And for what? The big superstars of the sport won’t be peaking for the TDU or the Tour of Guangxi, no matter how many points are on offer, so how do they plan to make the races popular? It doesn’t help promotion of cycling in non-EU countries, it merely inconveniences smaller teams and forces them to ride from January until late October, at the risk of making them less competitive for races that matter.

If the UCI decides to use points to determine promotion/relegation or wild cards for big races, points need to mean something.

I think the question is if you award based on popularity then you absolutely destroy the TDU. Fewer teams turn up. The best riders don’t ride and only die hard fans follow the event. Sponsorship dwindles and the event folds and then you have to find another race to fill the calendar, which under your scheme then has to earn its points quotient. No, I think from this POV the UCI are right because it’s not the European Cycling Federation, it’s the Union Cycliste Internationale, and so does need to promote cycling elsewhere. I’d also understand if you made a case for a separate ECF, but that’s for a different day. There is some merit in having an overall classification. A GC for the entire year, but you’d have to limit the number of days racing to stop injury and burn-out, and I wonder if both rider and fan fatigue would basically mean it becomes less meaningful than the World Champs jersey because it goes to Heimar Zubeldia, who has consistently placed, never attacked and ridden a lot of races, and so you’d need to caveat the award. Perhaps, the best points tally from the best 20 days of racing over the year. So it rewards real effort, and still allows riders to compete heavily throughout the season to win – rewarding TT riders, sprinters, climbers and puncheurs all the same (with the exception that there are less race days which suit TTers, climbers and puncheurs).

I think Lukyluk’s point that it’s the smaller teams and lesser riders who are inconvenienced/hampered by having to ride races such as the TDU is a very important one. With this and teams riding for points, not wins, it seems the points system is more likely to have a negative overall effect than a positive one.

Smaller teams aren’t obliged to ride these races. But turning them down is not easy which I appreciate. It’s probably not easy for anyone, big or small, which is why UCI incentivises the race with points. They don’t have financial clout to boost prize money or subsidise teams so they use the one tool at their disposal. It’s the same reason the Tour of Oman takes place. I doubt the UCI wanted a race through a desert on a bike, but key financial/commercial reasons come into play. Once upon a time road cycling was the preserve of the old European Western elites, few would argue that broadening its reach to the US, Colombia, Australia and elsewhere was a bad thing.

Smaller WT teams are obliged to ride WT races.

“Once upon a time road cycling was the preserve of the old European Western elites, few would argue that broadening its reach to the US, Colombia, Australia and elsewhere was a bad thing.” No argument until you give the winner of one of these events (especially in January/February) the same points as a Monument winner. That’s what I’m arguing against.

You would have a point, Larry, if the purpose of the points system was a meaningful annual championship.

But it is not. It is a system designed to qualify teams for higher level races on the basis of their consistent investment in the sport instead of just showing up for a handful of big races. As such, the fly away WT races all have an added premium compared to the points they would deserve purely on sporting merit.

It is for the same reason that a very high amount of points is offered for the Road World Championships and the teams permitted to benefit from those points, to give an incentive for professional teams to release their riders to national teams and even consider it when structuring their season. In a more pure world, there wouldn’t need to be any ranking points on offer for the Road World Championships because winning the World Championship would be regarded as enough of a prize in the first place.

A similar situation exists in sports car racing. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is the equivalent of the Tour de France in pretty well every aspect, but to incentivise consistent investment in sports car racing the other 4-6 hour WEC races have 50% of the Le Mans points and 8 hour races have 75%, both far more than they would be worth if you compared the other WEC races to Le Mans in terms of sporting merit.

I’d agree with that synopsis. If we start from the basis of ‘it is what it is’, the rankings are designed to partly mimic a league. In any league, a win is a win is a win. Some wins are harder-earned than others, but they attract the same number of points. We can argue until the cows come home how to load certain victories / races but the point of a ranking is to measure performance over a given time not just at a certain time. So if you place well in January and are still doing the business come September, absolutely the points awarded in Australia have a lot of merit.

My main criticism of the rankings is that, whilst they can reward through promotion / relegation, there is not enough credence given to the respective winners. The top team and riders should get more formal recognition – a trophy or bands on a jersey perhaps. Roglic was consistently superb last season and yet the rainbow bands for a one-off race are worn by a domestiique-as stands.

The problem with a Tour of Australia is that Australia is roughly the size of Europe. Even Sydney to Adelaide is a 14-hour journey by car, and that’s only the bottom-right corner. You could do it in different parts each time, but you’d have to miss out most of the country every year.

+1 (ish) I was going to agree (changed my mind slightly having looked at a few examples!) – amongst a lot of comments, there’s a willing blindness to the idea that a small proportion of these points are in the interest of the development of cycling. As long as this is all above board and there’s no corruption involved in points allocation, this seems fine in moderation. As the first WT race of the season, TDU seems to be overexposed (both good and bad) – in the midst of the season, fewer people seem concerned about how many points, say, the EuroEyes Cyclassics is worth.

In terms of prestige, the big anomoly for me is Strade Bianche and the value of Grand Tour stage wins (in comparison to middling one day races). I was surprised to see Kristoff ahead of Sagan in the rankings (see below) – Kristoff got more points for winning Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau than you get for winning a stage of the Tour. Similarly, Van Avermaet gets almost as many points for placing 1st and 3rd at Montreal and Quebec as Carapaz did for winning the Giro (Caparaz obviously got various additional day-to-day points in Italy).

The most curious example for me is that Caleb Ewan got more points for placing 2nd at both the EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg and the Cadel Evans Road Race than for all (5!) his 2019 Grand Tour stage wins combined. Should this be corrected or does it motivate riders to perform away from the biggest stages? I guess the risk is that a lack of consistency with the races the teams/riders truly care about means that the rankings begin to misrepresent who is truly the best – do you care more about your rider being 1st on the Champs Elysee (120 pt) or 2nd in the Cadel Evans race (250 pt)?

It’s about longevity and consistency, as a rider and a team? Ewan, as a native, is virtually obliged to race in Australia in January. Witness a tough CEGORR yesterday; any points gained there were hard-fought. It’s hard to imagine the races in Australia being prominent without the WT tag.

Winning a One-Day-Race most often needs way more effort than winning a dull TdF stage, where they let a group go, hold them at 5 minutes, put some effort into the last 25km to catch them at 3km to go and bring your sprinter who hasn’t been seen for the last 6 hours to the finish to swing his legs for 5o0 meters and take a win. Yes, there are Onedays with the same playbook, but way more with exciting racing than an average Grand Tour stage. Your mileage may vary, but I’m fine with less points for dull GT stages.

Ole- Brilliant -that’s a whole new metric to exploit! Points could be awarded according to the entertainment value and panache of each ride, and viewers award kudos points after each race.. The UCI holds a glittering Acadamy Awards ceremony for the most entertaining rider of the year.. My mind is reeling with excitement 😃🤣

If I were the king of pro cycling there would be something between the 850 points for the Giro and 500 for Ghent-Wevelgem, like the 5 Monuments at 700 or something, unless you want to lower the points awarded for G-W and the like to 400 or maybe less? I’ll stop there so nobody can accuse me of ranting 🙂

I thought you were the King of Pro Cycling?

What would you do for the minor placings (2nd-onwards)? I think they should be significantly less (a fraction) of the points for winning. See my point on Pedersen and Bettiol vs Quintana in 2019, above.

CA – Read my last sentence again. You’re welcome! 🙂

More the Jordan Schlansky of pro cycling 🙂

I don’t have too much beef with the points awarded. I wouldn’t give the Tour more than the Giro or the Vuelta or Amstel Gold the same as the monuments but I don’t have a problem with the TDU getting the same as Paris-Nice or Tour de Suisse as a warm up race is a warm up race whether its relatively new and in Australia or old and in Europe. My main problem is with the ‘World Tour’ in general and the lumping together of Grand Tours, 1 week stage races and 1 day races. To give a completely random example you can’t really compare Richie Porte with John Degenkolb. If I ousted Larry as the King of Cycling I would bring back the World Cup (odd points leaders jersey included) and have that as the 10 or 12 most important one day races (ideally just 10), with equal points for each race rather like Formula 1 if you like. Any more races than that and you get to a point where riders cant do them all and it gets pointless trying to compare someone who placed well in 15 races against someone who won 2 monuments. My World Cup would probably be Strade Biance, Milano-Sanremo, Gent-W, Flanders, Roubaix, Amstel, Liege, San Sebastian, Paris-Tours, Lombardia. Obviously races not in would lose out and be seen as less important but that’s life, someone has to miss out. You could put the none monuments on rotation if it made people feel better. Then I’d have a championship of stage races spread across the year, I’m not sure what I’d call that. Start with TDU , Colombia and the Arab races, through Paris-Nice, Tirrenno, various Spanish races, Dauphine, Suisse, maybe the Eneco or whatever its called and then finish with Britain or something in China if needed. The Grand Tours would be stand alone events, to be seen as a championship in themselves. You could have a separate World Ranking, like the tennis one or whatever, where every race is given an amount of points depending on whether its ‘World Tour’, HC, 1.1, 1.2, a stage or whatever and it just rolls on and one and say Van der Poel could be ‘World Number 1’ for an x amount of weeks or years in the same way that Federer or Woods were.

Now and then I wonder what was wrong with the old Super Prestige Pernod award? But I’m trying not to get wound up about “Heinie’s Folly” and all the other less-than-stellar ideas that have been shoved down pro cycling’s throat by those who seemingly want to set things up so they can increase their monetary income.

The Super Prestige Pernod would have had the same complaints, wouldn’t it? It’s just another selection of 21 arbitrarily scored races.

“Why is the 4 Days of Dunkirk worth more than LBL?” “Why is Bordeaux-Paris the same as the Ronde?” “Why are there no points for Tirrenno-Adriatico, or Strade Bianche?”

I don’t remember all the whining about the Super Prestige, it seemed pretty obvious the winner was deserving no matter how his points were gained – but of course that was long before social media, so the bitching and moaning might have been just as long and loud, but you didn’t read about it in the pages of Winning Magazine or Bicisport.

I bet there was whining about the Super Prestige, but not via the same medium of internet forums that serves as the prime format for whining these days.

The consistent interest in the WorldTour from race organisers and teams would suggest that not everyone is paying attention to the whining.

I can’t remember the full story, nor the year in question but one year apparently Greg LeMond raced Lombardia glued to Sean Kelly’s wheel in order to defend his lead in the Super Prestige series rather than win the race and it didn’t go down well in the media.

I found a snippet about the 1976 Super Prestige Pernod in an article on Cycling Tips. It’s interesting to see the various points weightings of races and to see how their relative importance has changed. There seems to only have been points awarded for overall GC results in stage races with stage wins and days in leaders jerseys getting no recognition.

1976 SPP 1st place points Paris-Nice 55 Milan San Remo 60 Semana Catalana 40 Amstel Gold Race 40 Tour of Flanders 60 Paris-Roubaix 65 Fleche-Wallone 45 Liege-Bastogne-Liege 45 Tour of Spain 70 4 Days of Dunkirk 50 Tour of Romandie 40 Giro d’Italia 75 Bordeaux-Paris 60 Criterium du Dauphine 55 GP di Midi Libre 50 Tour de France 110 World Road Title 70 Paris-Brussels 50 Tours-Versailles 60 GP des Nations 65 Tour of Lombardy 60

The Ardennes races have definitely risen in prestige since 1976 and Paris-Tours (Tours-Versailles in 1976) has fallen. Also interesting was the GP des Nations time trial garnering greater points for the winner than Milan San Remo or any other classic other than Paris-Roubaix.

How the world of pro cycling has changed in 45 years.

Isn’t your last sentence exactly what we have now?

Yeah I think there is something like that at the moment. I just meant I’d have it in addition to the other things. I’ve had another idea whilst on the turbo…. all stages races (I think) designate stages as mountainous, or flat or whatever. How about a sprinters award. All flat stages across the year could get given a certain amount of points say 25, 15, 10 for the top 3 in flat stages of GTs (separate to the points jersey competition), less for the bigger one week races, less again for HC events, less again for .1 and the maybe 3, 2 and 1 for .2 races. Then at the end of the year we don’t have to say ‘who was the best sprinter, Viviani or Groenewegen?’, one of them would get given a little trophy at an awards night in Dubai to prove it definitively.

Broadly speaking I would vote for this, though the key issue is really that you don’t have separate teams for one day Classics and three week races (which I know you know). I guess what we’re getting down to is that the WT really lacks consistency and is a great mess. Part of me thinks, like with football, having UEFA, CONCACAF and FIFA etc for cycling might set up a more lucrative and interesting approach. UEFA dominates with the wealthiest leagues, but much of the best talent comes from elsewhere, and the competition is no less fierce. There are definitely problems with FIFA and soccer, but I’m merely suggesting that a federation approach could be instructive.

Time trials are an awesome test for those who are trying, but it seems to me they often unbalance stage races, ie have too much influence relative to the actual racing. I notice that the UCI weights time trial wins at the Olympics and the Worlds much less than the corresponding road race, and also that no distinction is made between tt and race stage wins in stage races. I don’t care about the points as such, but I do wonder if there’s a rationale for rating a TT win less than a race win.

I’ve always thought stage-races were designed to determine the best all around racer so tests against the clock are required just as much as racing up and downhill, on the flats and into the wind. Endless arguments ensue as to the best balance of the stages but I’d never suggest doing away with ITT (or even TTT) though I WOULD like to see the rules changed to eliminate all the chrono-specific equipment used today. The bike industry gets it’s collective chamois all-in-a-bunch at the very thought but in the end if it’s bike sales they’re after, how many disc wheels, wacky handlebars and chrono frames that look like they’ve been ironed flat with a steamroller do they really sell vs standard roadracing type bicycles anyway? A race-against-the-clock is gonna produce the same results either way, so why allow all this otherwise useless equipment to be used?

Egwetter gree about the equipment. If the rationale for TTs in stage races is to find the best all-round rider, the same should apply to the bike, and all the bits on it.

Yes, as ugly as I fear the results would be (everyone on “aero road” bikes?) limiting a rider to one make/model bike with replacements of the same type in the event of a crash, mechanical issue, etc.) would make things more fair as well as lower the costs of equipment and transport. But the industry has demonstrated little in the way of interest in actual sporting values, it’s just about selling more stuff so I’m not holding my breath for any change.

One approach to quantifying the relative worth of each event in the calendar is to base it on the aggregate rankings of the field of competitors it attracted has in (the) previous edition(s). After a few iterations this tends to produce a ranking that aligns well with subjective perceptions of the prestige of each event and objective valuations of the strength of the competition.

I think that would work well for a fan ranking as it incorporates some of the “who did you beat” aspect… but it’d be difficult for the UCI/team aspect, where managers want to target certain races, score a known amount which is the other purpose of the tables.

Yes. You’d be annoyed if your victory was demoted because one rider got injured or didn’t turn up. Not your fault they didn’t turn up, but penalised all the same

Except it wouldn’t. As I wrote above, the ranking of the present edition of an event is based on the previous edition(s) of the event, not the current edition; therefore the value of the current edition is known beforehand. The strength of this system is that it has built-in feedback. The individual choices of one year can only improve the ranking of events for the following year, so that with a few iterations the rankings sort themselves out. By the way, this is not something I pulled out of the top of my head, it is used sucessfully in a least one sport.

Although you do run the risks that not everybody rides every race to win so potentially: 1. more specialist but prestigious races, such as Paris-Roubaix, end up with a lower ranking than other, more accessible “training” races; and 2. the “other 2” Grand Tours end up with lower rankings than that year’s favoured TdF warm-up race or Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice, which almost always have excellent fields, some of whom are just getting the miles in.

Perhaps it might work if you based it on the rankings of the top 10 only, so those using the race as a training ride don’t affect it?

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A guide to the UCI World Tour calendar with major pro road bike races

Late winter — early spring, depending on the region of the world, is the beginning of professional road cycling races season, inspiring millions of amateurs who alternate their own training and bikepacking trips with watching races on TV. Well, like me, for example.

However, given the variety of cycling competitions in different formats, it is easier to get lost in the calendar than to understand it by missing your favorite or most important race of the season. Just try to answer the question yourself: which comes first: Amstel Gold Race or Paris-Roubaix? And what kind of races are these, anyway?

To prevent this from happening to you, read this guide to the UCI World Tour calendar with major pro road bike races. Bookmark it on your browser — you’ll still need it, the season is almost a full year and will last until November. In the end, you will also find an exact competition calendar with dates and other useful information. But first: what is this Tour?

The UCI World Tour is the main event or rather a season in professional road cycling, which takes place every year for 9 months from January to November around the world, but mainly in Europe as the central (and simply the best) region for the sport. If you are skiing or surfing, it’s like the Freeride World Tour and World Surf League.

UCI stands for Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union), which is the main world cycling organization that holds the Tour, but also almost all other competitions. Check your bike and you will find its emblem on it, which means it is approved for competition. UCI is headquartered in the small town of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

In 2023 the UCI calendar consists of 35 races of different formats, durations, and importance. The figure is not constant and varies from year to year with the removal of some events and the addition of others. For example, the Classic Brugge-De Panne race moved to the World Tour from the lower division (which I will also mention at the end of the guide) in 2019, and the RideLondon-Surrey Classic in the UK has dropped off the calendar, and so on.

So let’s break it all down, using the most recent version as an example. But keep in mind that there may be changes in the future, so we will also briefly describe other important UCI races.

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Three Grand Tours, plus individual stages

The Grand Tours are the three main professional bike races in the entire world of cycling. The list include the Tour de France , the Giro d’Italia , and the Vuelta a España — in order of importance and popularity. If you arrange them chronologically, the last one is in Spain in September and will remain in its place, and the French Tour in July and the Italian Giro in May will switch places. All three races are three weeks long and consist of 21 stages plus a few rest days. The winner is determined by the overall best time. In other words, it’s like 63 separate races! Winning a Grand Tour stage is just as incredibly prestigious as winning the individual one-day races listed below.

• Tour de France, France
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Five cycling Monuments (Monument Classics)

The Cycling Monuments are five of the most prestigious one-day races in the world, also called Monument Classics for the reason that each is also a classic cycling race, of which there are few. "Classic" means a great history, popularity, and so on, and as a consequence prestigious to participate and win. The location of each race is also easy to guess from their names, but if you are not a geography expert, here and hereafter I have indicated the countries. To win at least one of these races is like going around the world on foot — in theory, every regular hiker can do it, but in fact, there are probably no more than 100 people in the world who actually did it, because it is very, very long and difficult.

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• Giro di Lombardia, Italy

Eleven classic bike races (Classics)

Classic bike races, or simply Classics for short, are actually the main body of one-day professional bike races, which include, first, as I just noticed, all five of the above-mentioned Monuments, as well as several dozen other races, of which 11 can be found in the 2023 World Tour calendar. So there are quite a few of them. Classic races are divided according to two main criteria: season and road surface. In the latter case, in particular, there are Cobbled Classics — routes consisting partly of cobbles in northern France,  Belgium, and the Netherlands, which are the main countries for the Classics. There is also at least one gravel race — the Strade Bianche (the White Road) in Tuscany, Italy, named so because of the clouds of white dust raised by riders.

Six spring Classics

• Strade Bianche, Italy
• Classic Brugge-De Panne, Belgium
• E3 Saxo Bank Classic (ex-E3 Harelbeke), Belgium
• Gent-Wevelgem, Belgium
• Amstel Gold Race, Netherlands
• La Flèche Wallonne, Belgium

Two summer Classics

• Clásica de San Sebastián, Spain
• EuroEyes Cyclassics (Hamburg Cyclassics), Germany

Three autumn Classics

• Bretagne Classic Ouest, France
• Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec (Laurentian Classics), Canada
• Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (Laurentian Classics), Canada

Four semi-classic bike races

In addition to the Classics, the UCI has several other one-day races on the calendar, which are of a lower level but are also considered prestigious. Sometimes they are called the Semi-classics or Elite races. For example, it is the first one-day race in the entire UCI season, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, named after perhaps the most famous cyclist from this country who won the Tour de France in 2011. It takes place on the famous scenic road along the Pacific Ocean at the very end of January. By the way, you can say "scenic" about the routes of almost all professional bike races, so they can be used by amateurs.

• Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Australia
• Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Belgium
• Dwars door Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Eschborn-Frankfurt (ex-Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt), Germany

Twelve bike stage races

Bike stage races are the last and largest group of races in the UCI calendar, which last from a few days to a week and more. You could say that they are a kind of “shortened by three times Grand Tours” — also in terms of geography because they focus on certain regions of France, Italy, and Spain. These races are also taking over more countries, including Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and even China. These races are also considered training races for the Grand Tours, and their winners can often be used to predict the best riders of the latter. Such races are also easily identified by the same words "Tour", "Giro", "Vuelta" or "Volta", and similar in their names.

• Tour Down Under, Australia
• UAE Tour, United Arab Emirates
• Paris-Nice, France
• Tirreno-Adriatico, Italy
• Volta a Catalunya, Spain
• Vuelta al Pais Vasco (Basque Country), Spain
• Tour de Romandie, Switzerland
• Critérium du Dauphiné, France
• Tour de Suisse, Switzerland
• Tour de Pologne, Poland
• Benelux Tour, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
• Tour of Guangxi, China

As a result, the 2023 UCI World Tour calendar includes the three Grand Tours, five Monument classic one-day bike races, 13 classic one-day races (10 in Europe, two in Canada, and one in Australia), and 13 bike stage races (10 in Europe, one in the United Arab Emirates, one in China, and one in Australia).

Just for the big picture and a better understanding of the World Tour races: in addition to it, UCI also conducts about a hundred other large and prestigious races in two lower divisions: UCI ProSeries and UCI Continental Circuits. These are both one-day and multi-day races united on different principles. In the second case — by five continents, as the name suggests: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Let's break it down.

Other Classics and Semi-classics. Among the most famous races are, first, many other classic and semi-classic, and elite bike races, which take place in the same countries as World Tour races, in all three parts of the season, but mostly in spring and autumn, as in summer all the attention of cycling fans is focused on the Tour de France. For example, these are Clásica de Almería in Spain; Milano-Torino and Giro del Piemonte in Italy, Nokere Koerse in Belgium; Grand Prix de Fourmies and Paris-Tours in France, Münsterland Giro in Germany; and Japan Cap.

It is also important to note that it is not always possible to draw a clear line between classic and semi-classic bike races. In particular, the latter may contain the word “Classic” in the name. Also, as you may have noticed yourself, some one-day races, including one Monument, may have the word "Tour" in the name.

Season Openers.  Among the one-day races, there are also separate so-called "Season Openers", that is, the first race of the season in each country. These races are important precisely for that reason, although they are not part of the World Tour, except for a few. So in France it is Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise; in Belgium — Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (World Tour) and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne; in Italy — Trofeo Laigueglia; in Spain — Trofeo Pollença. But even before the season starts in Australia, where it is the already mentioned Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (World Tour), for which it is, on the contrary, the fall race and one of the last races of the outgoing cycling season.

Other bike stage races.  Second, there are also over three dozen other bike stage races in different countries and geographic regions. For example, one of my favorite home races, the  Tour of the Alps , across the  Euroregion Trentiro-South Tyrol-Tyrol  takes place every year in April and consists of 5 stages. If you’re a longtime cycling fan, you already know it as the ex-Giro del Trentino. As you can see, the race has expanded geographically (as well as changed all the branding — from blue to eco-friendly green — in the spirit of the times), which shows its growing popularity.

There is a very high chance that you can also find a UCI race in your country or region , even in some “exotic” places in terms of cycling that are usually less or not at all associated with the sport by the mass outdoor enthusiast, including cold Scandinavia (Danmark Rundt, Tour of Norway, and others) and the Baltics (Tour of Estonia); the hot and desolate Middle East (Tour of Qatar / Oman / Abu Dabi, and others) and distant Latin America (Vuelta a Colombia, and others).

UCI Road World Championships.  Last, but by no means least, UCI also organizes the Road World Championships, which take place every year in a different country. In the past 2022, it was Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, in this 2023 it will be Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, between August 3 and 13. The world champion can be recognized in the peloton by the “rainbow” jersey in UCI colors, which he/she will wear throughout the next year.

So here's your exact UCI World Tour calendar for 2023 with dates, formats and other features.  The dates are more or less the same every year , so you can use it for navigation of the best bike races of the 2024, 2025 and all the following seasons.

• Tour Down Under, Australia, stage race, 17–22 January
• Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Australia, semi-classic, 29 January
• UAE Tour, United Arab Emirates, stage race, 20–26 February
• Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Belgium, semi-classic, 25 February
• Strade Bianche, Italy, Classic, 4 March
• Paris-Nice, France, stage race, 5–12 March
• Tirreno-Adriatico, stage race, 6–12 March
• Milan-San Remo, Italy, Monument Classic, 18 March
• Volta a Catalunya, Spain, stage race, 20–26 March
• Classic Brugge-De Panne, Belgium, Classic, 22 March 
• E3 Saxo Bank Classic (ex-E3 Harelbeke), Belgium, Classic, 24 March
• Gent-Wevelgem, Belgium, Classic, 26 March
• Dwars door Vlaanderen, Belgium, semi-classic, 29 March
• Tour of Flanders, Belgium, Monument Classic, 2 April
• Vuelta al Pais Vasco (Basque Country), Spain, stage race, 3–8 April
• Paris-Roubaix, France, Monument Classic, 9 April
• Amstel Gold Race, the Netherlands, Classic, 16 April
• La Flèche Wallonne, Belgium, Classic, 19 April
• Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Belgium, Monument Classic, 23 April
• Tour de Romandie, Switzerland, stage race, 25–30 April
• Eschborn-Frankfurt (ex-Rund um den Henninger Turm Frankfurt), Germany, semi-classic, 1 May
• Giro d’Italia, Italy, Grand Tour, 6–28 May
• Critérium du Dauphiné, France, stage race, 4–11 June
• Tour de Suisse, Switzerland, stage race, 11–18 June
• Tour de France, France, Grand Tour, 1–23 July
• Clásica de San Sebastián, Spain, Classic, 29 July
• Tour de Pologne, Poland, stage race, 29 July — 4 August
• EuroEyes Cyclassics (Hamburg Cyclassics), Germany, Classic, 20 August
• Benelux Tour, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, stage race, 23–27 August
• Vuelta a España, Spain, Grand Tour, 26 August — 17 September
• Bretagne Classic Ouest, France, Classic, 3 September
• Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, Canada, Classic, 8 September
• Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Canada, Classic, 10 September
• Il Lombardia, Italy, Monument Classic, 7 October
• Tour of Guangxi, China, stage race, 12–17 October

UCI World Tour calendar for 2023. Valerya Milovanova / Windy.app

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UCI World Tour Route, Stages and Results 2022

The best of road cycling returns with the 2022 UCI WorldTour

The world’s best riders will show their skills in 33 events, starting with the UAE Tour and the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite at the end of February.

Road racing has returned, and the intensity will only pick up with the first events of the UCI WorldTour, as the series progresses through the 2022 calendar. The international elite of cyclists is set to battle across three continents (Asia, Europe and America), with races in 11 different countries. Australia would have brought even more diversity to the calendar, with the traditional opening of the season Down Under, but the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the Santos Tour Down Under had to be canceled due to the restrictions imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemics.

Sprinters, climbers, puncheurs, rouleurs… every type of established champions and rising stars will find opportunities to shine as they try to succeed the winners of the 2021 UCI World Ranking : Tadej Pogačar (winner of the UCI World Ranking as well as the Stage Race UCI World Ranking), Wout van Aert (One Day Race UCI World Ranking) and Deceuninck-Quick Step (UCI Team Ranking), who still aim to dominate collectively under the Wolfpack’s new name, Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team.

Spring battles

The UAE Tour (February 20th-26th) will bring the first battles: tricky stages in the desert, an individual time trial and two mountainous days with summit finishes. Pogačar and the other best stage racers can already jostle in this early season rendez-vous the Slovenian prodigy dominated last year for his UAE Team Emirates. The Slovenian and a cohort of stars will then head to Tirreno-Adriatico (ITA - March 7th-13th), while his countryman Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) and others are expected to race Paris-Nice (FRA - March 6th-13th).

At the same time, Classics specialists will have already started their spring with the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite (February 26th), the traditional Belgian opener, leading to a campaign featuring all the ingredients for many thrillers: Italy’s white roads (Strade Bianche, March 5th) and Classicissima (Milano-Sanremo, March 19th); Belgian cobbles (Oxyclean Classic Brugge-De Panne, March 23rd, E3 Saxo Bank Classic, March 25th, Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields, March 27th, Dwaars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre, March 30th, Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres, April 3rd) and hills (La Flèche Wallonne, April 20th, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, April 24th)…

When you hear that the Omloop is being held this month 😍 #OHN22 pic.twitter.com/x9mq8bsIPL — OmloopHetNieuwsblad (@OmloopHNB) February 1, 2022

The calendar for the final stretch of the spring Classics is slightly adjusted this season to accommodate the French presidential elections. A week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen, riders will face the Dutch traps of the Amstel Gold Race (April 10th), while the iconic Paris-Roubaix is set for April 17th, as the event returns to a spring date after a historic autumnal weekend in 2021 . Eschborn-Frankfurt (May 1st) will cap off this intense stretch for the one-day race fans.

Grand Tour assaults Stage racers will keep the intensity rising in Spain with the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (March 21st-27th), quickly followed by the Itzulia Basque Country (April 4th-9th), and in Switzerland (Tour de Romandie, April 26th-May 1st), ahead of the first Grand Tour of the year: the Giro d’Italia, with a first ever start in Hungary (May 6th) and a spectacular finish in Verona (May 29th), where Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) sealed his victory in 2019. The Ecuadorian climber is expected at the start again. He’ll face grueling battles in his effort to succeed his teammate Egan Bernal, the winner in 2021.

There will be little time to gaze in awe at the views of the Verona Arena, as the Critérium du Dauphiné (FRA - June 5th-12th) and the Tour de Suisse (June 12th-19th) will bring more battles ahead of the Tour de France (July 1st-24th). The three-week event will celebrate Danish cycling culture, with a Grand Départ in Copenhagen , and lead the riders over cobbles and summits as iconic as L’Alpe d’Huez, to challenge the two-time reigning champion Pogačar.

Don’t expect the Slovenian wonderkid to take a break after reaching the Champs-Elysées - he’s already announced his intention to return to the final Grand Tour of the season, La Vuelta Ciclista a España (August 19th-September 11th), where he had a breakthrough performance in 2019.

Final pushes for glory

Ahead of the three-week race from Utrecht (the Netherlands) to Madrid, puncheurs and climbers will have another challenge at the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa (ESP - July 30th), and the Tour de Pologne (July 30th-August 5th) will offer more thrills on its varied routes.

Action will keep going all around the world during La Vuelta Ciclista a España with one-day races such as as the Bemer Cyclassics (GER - August 21st), the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France (August 28th) and the Canadian Grand Prix in Québec (September 9th) and Montréal (September 11th).

Classic experts should also thrive in the seven stages of the Benelux Tour. The world’s best cyclists are then expected in Wollongong (Australia), for the 2022 UCI Road World Championships (September 18th-25th), before they take on the final UCI WorldTour challenges of the season: the Monument, Il Lombardia (ITA - October 8th) ahead of the fireworks of the Gree-Tour of Guangxi (CHN - October 13th-18th).

How to watch the 2024 UCI Road World Championships

Find out how to stream all the action from Zürich on September 21-29

• Live streaming

The end of the racing season is near but the UCI Road World Championships are around the corner, with the week-long slate of races running on September 21-29.

After last year's 'mega Worlds' in Glasgow, Scotland, this season the races take place in Zürich, Switzerland featuring challenging hilly courses throughout the week.

The biggest stars of the men's and women's pelotons will be heading to Switzerland for the Worlds, including reigning road race champions Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) and Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) and time trial champions Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) and Chloe Dygert (USA).

Dates: September 21-29

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Those four big names will be hoping to pull on the rainbow jersey once again come the end of September, but there are plenty of major contenders heading to Zürich with similar dreams of glory.

Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia), Richard Carapaz (Ecuador), Mads Pedersen (Denmark), Michael Matthews (Australia), Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France), Grace Brown (Australia), and Kristen Falkner (USA) are some of the stars already confirmed for the 2024 Worlds.

More riders including the likes of Demi Vollering (Netherlands), Stefan Küng (Switzerland), Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy), and Josh Tarling (Great Britain) are expected to join the start list for the event, too.

Road World Championships live in the USA

Follow Cyclingnews on  Twitter ,  Facebook  and  Instagram  for alerts on important stories and action during the UCI Road World Championships.

FloBikes will air the UCI Road World Championships in full in the USA. An annual subscription will set you back $150/year.

Road World Championships live in Canada

In Canada, the UCI Road World Championships will also be streamed on Flobikes with a subscription costing $29.99/month or $150/year.

Road World Championships live in the UK

In the UK, cycling fans will be able to catch all the action at the Road Worlds live on Discovery+ .

A 'standard' subscription to Discovery+, which includes Eurosport's cycling coverage, will set you back £6.99 per month for the standard plan. The package includes year-round cycling streams as well as other live sports, including snooker, tennis, motorsports, and more.

A premium subscription, which includes all that plus TNT Sports (Premier League, Champions League and Europa League football plus rugby, wrestling, UFC, and MotoGP), costs £30.99 per month.

Road World Championships live in Australia

In Australia, national broadcaster  SBS  will carry live coverage of the Road Worlds on TV and streaming online.

Road World Championships on any streams

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Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer at Cyclingnews, joining in 2017 as a freelance contributor and later being hired full-time. Before joining the team, they had written for numerous major publications in the cycling world, including CyclingWeekly and Rouleur.

Dani has reported from the world's top races, including the Tour de France, Road World Championships, and the spring Classics. They have interviewed many of the sport's biggest stars, including Mathieu van der Poel, Demi Vollering, and Remco Evenepoel. Their favourite races are the Giro d'Italia, Strade Bianche and Paris-Roubaix.

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 Costituita la squadra, ogni fantamanager può partecipare (iscrivendosi entro i 15’ dalla partenza della gara) a tutte le competizioni UCI World Tour , più Europei , Mondiali (con punteggi differenziati) schierando in ogni gara nove corridori che in base alla loro posizione nelle varie graduatorie determineranno il punteggio del team. Fondamentale la designazione del capitano di giornata per ciascuna delle classifiche in programma: generale, scalatori, punti e giovani.

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