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Final UCI Rankings for the 2021 road season: Tadej Pogačar and Annemiek van Vleuten at the top of the world hierarchy

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that it has published all the final UCI Rankings for the 2021 road season for the different categories (Men Elite, Women Elite, Men Under-23, Women Under-23, Men Junior and Women Junior). The rankings were updated on 31 October, the final day of the 2021 season, and published on 2 November.

In the Men Elite category, the Slovenian Tadej Pogačar dominated both the individual UCI World Ranking (all types of races included) and the stage race individual UCI World Ranking. The Belgian Wout van Aert finishes at the top of the one-day race individual UCI World Ranking. The teams UCI World Ranking was won by Belgian squad Deceuninck – Quick-Step, while Belgium was the top-ranked nation.

As a reminder, the UCI WorldTour ranking no longer exists: since 2019 only the UCI World Ranking has been calculated for Men Elite.

Concerning Women Elite, Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten finished the season at the top of both the individual UCI World Ranking and the individual UCI Women’s WorldTour Ranking. The teams UCI World Ranking was dominated by Dutch squad Team SD Worx and the nations UCI World Ranking by the Netherlands.

The teams UCI Women’s WorldTour Ranking also went to Team SD Worx, while the New Zealander Niamh Fischer-Black finished at the top of the Youth Ranking.

2021 UCI World Ranking (Men)

Individual Ranking (overall):

1. Tadej Pogačar (SLO), 5,363 points

2. Wout van Aert (BEL), 4,382

3. Primož Roglič (SLO), 3,924

Individual Ranking (one-day races):

1. Wout van Aert (BEL), 3,016 points

2. Julian Alaphilippe (FRA), 2,523

3. Tadej Pogačar (SLO), 1,915

Individual Ranking (stage races):

1. Tadej Pogačar (SLO), 3,423 points

2. Primož Roglič (SLO), 2,499

3. Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (COL), 2,187

Teams Ranking:

1. Deceuninck – Quick-Step (BEL), 15,641.21 points

2. Ineos Grenadiers (GBR), 14,998.66

3. Jumbo – Visma (NED), 12,914.67

Nations Ranking:

1. Belgium, 14,349.33 points

2. Slovenia, 11,993

3. France, 11,541.67

2021 UCI World Ranking (Women)

Individual Ranking:

1. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED), 5,053.33 points

2. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA), 3,485

3. Marianne Vos (NED) 3,378

1. Team SD Worx (NED), 12,389.99 points

2. Trek – Segafredo (USA), 9,158.66

3. Movistar Team Women (ESP), 9,067.66

1. The Netherlands, 16,147.99 points

2. Italy, 8,411

3. Denmark, 4,338.99

2021 UCI Women’s WorldTour Ranking

1. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED), 3,177 points

2. Demi Vollering (NED), 2,563

3. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA), 2,509

1. Team SD Worx (NED), 8,572 points

2. Trek – Segafredo (USA), 5,263

3. Movistar Team Women (ESP), 5,043

Youth Ranking:

1. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL), 34 points

2. Evita Muzic (FRA), 32

3. Mariia Novolodskaia (RUS), 22

All the official rankings and results for international road cycling can be consulted on the UCI website.

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Who’s #1? Ranking the Top 2024 Tour de France Riders

This is the latest edition of Bicycling’ s Power Rankings for the 2024 Men’s Tour de France, where we rank the top contenders leading up to July’s race. This continuously updated list will give you an in-depth look at the riders that have the best shot to stand atop the podium at the end of the Tour—and how they’re performing in the races leading up to July.

These rankings will be constantly refreshed, so you can see who’s up and who’s down on the road to the 2024 Tour de France.

The 2024 Tour de France was expected to bring together the sport’s four best grand tour riders: Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), winner of the last two Tours de France; Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), winner of the 2020 and 2021 Tours de France; Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), winner of the 2022 Vuelta a España; and Slovenia’s Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe), a 3-time winner of the Vuelta and the champion at last year’s Giro d’Italia.

Each rider was taking a different route to the Tour de France , with each choosing to mix race days with extended periods of time spread at training camps. And while some of their paths crossed at certain races throughout the first few months of the season, they weren’t expected to all race together until the Tour.

But that might have gone out the window in early April after a scary, high-speed crash on Stage 4 of Spain’s Tour of the Basque Country took down several riders, including three of the five riders on our first two Power Rankings. And two of them–Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) and Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick Step)–suffered serious injuries.

News about each of the three riders has trickled out in the weeks following the crash, and while they’ve all made progress, there are still more questions than answers as to where their form will be by the time the 2024 Tour de France starts in Florence, Italy on Saturday, June 29th.

But there are no questions regarding the rider at the top of our latest Power Rankings.

Tadej Pogačar

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Previous Ranking : 1

Race Days : 12 (and counting)

Race Wins : 8

Best Result : 1st-place, Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Current Race : Giro d’Italia, May 4-26

Pogačar just keeps on winning, and even though he’s racing the Giro d’Italia before this year’s Tour de France (a double-dose of grand tours that usually forces riders to prioritize one race over the other), he’s currently the best-looking rider (form-wise, at least) heading into the Tour this July.

Since our last Power Ranking, Pogačar has spent much of his time training at altitude in Spain’s Sierra Nevada. He raced just once before the start of the Giro d’Italia, winning late-April’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège for the second time in his career after attacking on the steep slopes of the Côte de La Redoute 30K from the finish and riding away from the peloton. No one was close to matching the Slovenian; they were all racing for second.

And it’s been much the same so far at the Giro d’Italia, where Pogačar has jumped out to an early lead after dropping his GC rivals on Stages 1 and 2 to take the maglia rosa as the Giro’s overall leader.

Pog currently leads the race by 45 seconds and will likely add more to his advantage by the end of next weekend with a gravel stage on Thursday, a time trial with an uphill finish on Friday, and another summit finish on Saturday. In fact, don’t be surprised if Pogačar essentially puts the Giro out of reach by the first Rest Day, which would allow him to sit back, ride defensively, and essentially win his first Giro while “training” for the Tour de France.

Once upon a time we thought there would be no way that Pogačar could win the Giro and the Tour de France this season. But the way things are shaping up, we won’t be surprised if he becomes the first rider to win the Giro-Tour double since Italy’s Marco Pantani in 1998.

Primož Roglič

Previous Ranking : 2

Race Days : 11Race Wins: 1

Best Result : 1st-place, Stage 1 - Tour of the Basque Country

Next Race : Critérium du Dauphiné, June 2-10

Roglič also went down in the crash that took out Vingegaard and Evenepoel, and like the other two, he abandoned the race immediately. But after a series of medical examinations, BORA-hansgrohe reported that the 34-year-old suffered no major injuries.

The Slovenian was initially expected to take part in Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège last month, but the team changed plans, giving him extra time to heal. That was the right call, as the weather in the Belgian Ardennes was atrocious, and the juice wouldn’t have been worth the squeeze. In fact, Roglič probably made more gains by not racing than he would have if he had.

Assuming he’s now fully healed from his injuries, he’s now resumed training for the Tour de France, the only grand tour still missing from his resume. His next race will be the Critérium du Dauphiné in early June, a French week-long stage race that he and several other contenders are expected to use as their dress rehearsal for the Tour de France.

No one wants to see their Tour de France preparation interrupted for any reason, but compared to Vingegaard and Evenepoel, Roglič dodged a huge bullet.

Remco Evenepoel

Previous Ranking : 3

Race Days : 17

Race Wins : 4

Best Result : 2nd place, General Classification - Paris-Nice

Another victim of the crash at the Tour of the Basque Country, Evenepoel broke his right clavicle and scapula in Spain and had surgery a few days later in Belgium to address the broken collarbone.

The injury meant the Belgian would miss a chance to become only the fourth rider to win Liège-Bastogne-Liège three years in a row–and fans would miss their first chance to see the Belgian champion go head-to-head with Pogačar this season.

But we got some good news before Liège-Bastogne-Liège when it was announced that Evenepoel would be attending his team’s altitude camp in Sierra Nevada this month and is back on schedule in terms of his training for this summer’s Tour de France.

That sets him up for an interesting battle with Roglič at the Critérium du Dauphiné, which was always part of the Belgian’s program. If his training goes as well as his team seems to think it will, the Belgian could still head to Florence as one of the Tour’s top-3 contenders.

Egan Bernal

Previous Ranking : 4

Race Days : 28

Race Wins : 0

Best Result : 3rd place, General Classficiation - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

Next Race : Tour de France, June 29-July 21

Well, it took a little while, but INEOS finally made the call we’d been expecting them to make: Bernal will race this summer’s Tour de France. It was an easy decision given how well the Colombian has raced this season.

Every time he races, the 27-year-old continues to impress, most recently at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, where–despite never having raced it before–he crossed the line in the elite group of riders that finished behind Pogačar.

And he only ended the day 21st, that belies his overall performance. He was one of only a handful of riders able to stay within shouting distance of the Slovenian on La Redoute and put in a late attack of his own to try and escape the chasing group. After the race, Bernal said he felt stronger than he was before the 2022 crash that almost ended his career.

Then he went right to the Tour of Romandie, where he finished tenth overall while helping his teammate, Spain’s Carlos Rodriguez, win the race overall. He looked like his old self on the climb to Leysin on Stage 6, putting down several attacks to whittle down the leading group and setting Rodriguez up to win the race overall. And had it not been for the Stage 3 time trial (in which he lost about a minute to the other contenders) he might have won the race himself. (Luckily, there’s just one time trial at this year’s Tour de France–and it’s made for climbers.)

Given how much he’s already raced this season, Bernal might not race at all until the Tour, where he’ll join Carlos Rodriguez (fifth at last year’s Tour), Geraint Thomas (currently racing the Giro), and Thomas Pidcock (the team’s next grand contender?) on the starting line in Florence.

Carlos Rodriguez

Previous Ranking : Under consideration

Race Days : 24

Race Wins : 2

Best Result : 1st-place, General Classification - Tour de Romandie

Vingegaard’s drop from the top-5 makes room for Spain’s Rodriguez, who finished fifth in last year’s Tour de France and has been steadily riding his way back to that same level of fitness throughout the first part of the season.

The 23-year-old took his first win of the year on the final stage of the Tour of the Basque Country–on his way to finishing second overall. He then took his first overall victory in a WorldTour stage race at last week’s Tour de Romandie, where he showed himself to have the all-round capabilities (time trialing and climbing) that a rider often needs to win a grand tour.

His next stop will be the Dauphiné, where he’ll face the toughest competition he’s faced so far this season. A strong performance could make him a solid Option 1A at INEOS, and force us to move him over Bernal (who nudges ahead for now since he’s a two-time grand tour champion) in our Power Ranking.

Under Consideration

Unfortuantely, the Tour’s two-time defending champion, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) is running out of time to win a third consecutive Tour de France. One of the worst victims of the crash at the Tour of the Basque Country, the Dane lay motionless along the side of the road for a few minutes before finally being placed in an ambulance and taken to a local hospital.

Initial tests revealed a broken collarbone and a few cracked ribs, but later the team shared that Vingegaard also suffered a pulmonary contusion and a collapsed lung. After staying in the hospital for twelve days, he was finally released.

At first, Vingegaard and his team weren’t talking about the Tour de France, rightfully choosing to focus on the health of their star rider. But we got some news Tuesday as Visma-Lease a Bike posted a video to social media , showing Vingegaard on the bike for the first time since he suffered the injury.

Visma-Lease a Bike director Merijn Zeeman told Dutch website Wielerflits.nl that Vingegaard will not be joining the team at its training camp in Sierra Nevada (which started over the weekend) and he will not be racing what was supposed to be his final race before the Tour de France, the Critérium du Dauphiné.

“Winning the Tour will be difficult for Jonas,” Zeeman said, “but it is certainly not impossible." We appreciate Zeeman’s optimism, but with less than eight weeks until the start of the Tour de France, it sounds pretty ominous to us.

Zeeman went on to say, “We have to wait and see, but we certainly still have hope that he can defend his Tour title." That’s an interesting choice of words. Vingegaard could certainly start the Tour in a bid to “defend his Tour title,” but that doesn’t mean he’ll be doing it on his own behalf.

But it could mean that the Dane will start the Tour as a key support rider for American Sepp Kuss , the winner of last year’s Vuelta a España. Kuss hasn’t raced since the Tour of the Basque Country and won’t race again until the Critérium du Dauphiné. He’s been building his season around the Tour de France–as a domestique deluxe to Vingegaard–but now he might get a chance to lead the team himself.

Kuss has raced much this season (he’ll head to the Tour with just 21 race days in his legs). But the 29-year-old has always preferred training over racing and the team has had more than enough time to make whatever (minor) adjustments to his training plan needed to be made to prepare him to be the squad’s Tour de France captain.

And we know now that Kuss will also have Belgium’s Wout van Aert by his side. The Belgian broke his collarbone in the Dwars door Vlaanderen semi-Classic in late-March and missed his own targeted block of races–including what would have been his first Giro d’Italia–due to his injuries. But van Aert is back on his bike and now building toward the Tour de France, which he’ll use to put the finishing touches on his form for the Olympic Games.

So if Vingegaard is healthy enough to start the Tour–and continues to get stronger as the race progresses–Visma could head to the French grand tour with Kuss as their leader and van Aert and Vingegaard as his two most important support riders, a tantalizing prospect for American fans.

We’re also keeping our eyes on Spain’s Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) . Ayuso won the overall title at the Tour of the Basque Country and the time trial in Romandie (where he finished fifth overall). If anything happens to Pog, he’ll be UAE’s team captain at the Tour. He’s not slated to race before the Tour de France, but we won’t be surprised if that changes in the weeks to come.

Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) almost stayed with Pogačar on La Redoute in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and won the mountain stage at the Tour de Romandie. The 30-year-old has podium finishes in all three grand tours (including a victory in the 2019 Giro), and looks to be right on track to challenge for another top-3 finish at the Tour. His next race will be the Tour de Suisse, which wraps-up two weeks before the start of the Tour.

Other riders worth mentioning include Spain’s Enric Mas (Movistar) , Great Britain’s Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) and Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl-Trek) , and France’s David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) . All four of them raced at Romandie, and while none made major headlines, they all showed that their form is trending in the right direction with 8 weeks left to the Tour. Geoghan Hart and Gaudu will be in action at the Dauphiné, while Mas and Yates–for now at least–won’t be racing until they get to Florence for Stage 1 of the Tour on June 29th.

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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.

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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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Human Powered Health, Israel Premier Tech-Roland, and Uno-X on a hunt for points in the fight for survival

The Women's WorldTour has entered the next phase of restructuring that will see WorldTeams and Continental Teams in a battle for points that will decide the 15 WorldTour teams in 2024. Like for the men's WorldTour teams in 2022, the 2023 season will become a battle for points and so Women's WorldTour survival.

The combined points accumulated across the 2022 and 2023 seasons will be put toward the two-year system for the UCI World Ranking, which will play a key role in determining which teams are either promoted, relegated or remain among the top tier of Women's WorldTeams.

Three current WorldTour teams have found themselves in a relegation danger zone, with Israel Premier Tech-Roland in 18th, Uno-X Pro Cycling in 24th and Human Powered Health in 27th based on the UCI World Ranking at the end of the 2022 season. 

Don't count them out, however, because, with revamped rosters and a targeted points-chasing strategy, these teams have everything to play for in 2023 as they battle to keep their WorldTeam licences.

The sport governing body introduced the Women's WorldTour in 2016, which replaced for former one-day World Cup series, and created a two-tier team structure as part of the women's professional racing reforms in 2020.

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The team restructuring began with the elevation of eight teams to the top tier called WorldTeams in 2020, and the number of top-level teams increased to nine in 2021, 14 in 2022, reaching 15 teams for 2023.

How did these teams acquire WorldTeam licences? 

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During the application and registration process, each team had to meet four non-sporting requirements to be granted a WorldTeam licence: administrative, ethical, organizational and financial.

The heightened financial criteria include, but are not limited to, a team's ability to pay its riders a minimum salary, which the UCI  introduced for Women's WorldTeams  in 2020. 

Currently, riders contracted with a top-tier team earn a minimum salary of €32,102 (employed) / €52,647 (self-employed) in 2023, and that is set to increase to €35,000 (employed) / €57,400 (self-employed) in 2024, and again to €38,000 (employed) / €62,320 (self-employed) in 2025.  

The salary structure now also includes a  neo-pro minimum salary scale.

No team is guaranteed to keep their WorldTeam licence, and even those teams that have had a multi-year licence are required to undergo the registration process each year so that the licence commission can verify that they still meet the four non-sporting criteria.

Teams that acquired their licences in 2020, 2021, 2022 (and, if applicable, in 2023) will expire at the end of the 2023 season. A licence issued in 2023 and 2025 will be issued for one year. In 2026, onward licences will be issued for three years.  

In order for teams to acquire a WorldTeam licence going forward, they now have to meet the four non-sporting criteria and the points ranking across two and then three-year world ranking systems.

There are currently 15 top-tier teams heading into the 2023 season, including Canyon-SRAM, EF Education-TIBCO-SVB, FDJ-SUEZ, Human Powered Health, Israel Premier Tech-Roland, Liv Racing TeqFind, Movistar, Team DSM, Jayco AlUla, Jumbo-Visma, SD Worx, Trek-Segafredo, UAE Team ADQ, UNO-X Pro Cycling, and the newest addition to secure a licence this year, Fenix-Deceuninck.

WorldTeams are permitted to hire a maximum of 20 riders and up to 22 if two neo-pros are hired; however, most teams' rosters are between 14-16 riders in 2023.

The top-tier teams have automatic invitations to the WorldTour events, as do the top two ranked second-tier teams; Ceratizit- WNT Pro Cycling Team and Lifeplus Wahoo. 

Other teams among the top 20 in the rankings include Parkhotel Valkenburg, Atom Deweloper Posciellux.pl Wroclaw, AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep and Team Coop-Hitec Products.

UAE Development Team (formerly Valcar Travel & Service) and Canyon-SRAM Generation are competitive among the world rankings, too. However because they are officially registered as development programmes for their corresponding WorldTeams, they are not permitted to race at the same events or apply for a top-tier licence in future.

There are currently 54 Continental-level teams.

The 2023 UCI World Ranking for the teams will be updated weekly by adding the points obtained from the start of the season by the eight best riders under contract with each team at the time of the ranking.

Teams will then be ranked on a two-year system. The UCI will add the points of each women's UCI team in the world ranking that was established at the end of 2022, with the points that each team earns at the races in 2023, according to article 2.10.045.

This two-year system will determine a team's ranking used during the WorldTeam licencing application process ahead of the 2024 and 2026 seasons. A three-year system will be used to determine the sporting criterion for 2029.

The 15 top-ranked teams in the above-mentioned ranking, among the teams that have applied for a WorldTeam licence, having also met the four criteria; administrative, ethical, organizational and financial, are then deemed to have met the sporting criteria, according to article 2.13.42.

Any points that are earned from the start of the season until the date of a transfer to another team are added to the points of the former team. Likewise, any points that a rider earns as of the date of the transfer to a new team until the last day of the season are added to the points of the new team. Also, points earned by trainees or development riders will not be added to the host teams.

Teams in danger of relegation

EF Education-TIBCO-SVB, Fenix-Deceuninck, and Liv Racing TeqFind were all close to the bottom of the top 15 in the UCI World Ranking at the end of 2022 in 11th-13th place, respectively, and will need to consider their performances and point strategy this season if they want to remain high enough in the standings.

Israel Premier Tech-Roland, Uno-X Pro Cycling and Human Powered Health, however, are the only three top-tier teams that found themselves outside of the top 15 in the UCI World Ranking at the end of the 2022 season.

It's a dangerous place to be when there are Continental teams such as Ceratizit-WNT, Lifeplus-Wahoo, Parkhotel Valkenburg, and AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep with an interest in moving up to the WorldTour.

Israel Premier Tech-Roland has undergone significant upgrades in their second season on the Women's WorldTour as Israel Premier Tech increased its funding and moved into a title sponsorships role. The team hired 10 new riders for the 2023 season.

The team retained their top performer from last year, Tamara Dronova, Caroline Baur and Hannah Buch, and signed former double junior World Champion Elena Pirrone alongside Fariba Hashimi, Sofia Collinelli, Fien Delbaere, Nathalie Eklund, Mia Griffin, Silvia Magri, Thị Thật Nguyễn, Claire Steels, and Lara Vieceli. The team also confirmed the last-minute signing of Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer .

Dronova, who secured top-10s in many of the biggest races on the calendar, believes that with a little more time and experience , the team will begin to show themselves in the races.

They are off to a promising start with Steels as their top performer at the Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Road Race and Dronova finishing in the top 10 at Women Cycling Pro Costa De Almería. 

Uno-X Pro Cycling has brought in former world champion Amalie Dideriksen, Maria Giulia Confalonieri and Anouska Koster, and all will undoubtedly help the team with a race-winning strategy and, in turn, acquire points to put toward the two-year ranking system. 

The team, however, might find themselves starting off on the back foot, having decided not to make the trip to Australia for the opening Women's WorldTour races. While the other two teams are already gaining points, they don't start their season until February in Spain.

The biggest surprise of all could be Human Powered Health which has already leaped ahead after securing points at the Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Road Race with strong results from Nina Buijsman, Henrietta Christie, Daria Pikulik and Kaia Schmid, along with Jesse Vandenbulcke in Almeria. 

In total, they earned 745 points in January, already more than 80% of what they earned (914 points) in the whole of last season.

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