Skilled biking showcases 28 top-tier girls’s occasions that make up the 2024 Ladies’s WorldTour calendar. The season begins yearly on the Tour Down Underneath and Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Street Race as a part of a packed season of Australian summer season racing that started the New 12 months.
The sequence then heads to the Center East for the UAE Tour, a four-day stage race held in February, earlier than going to Europe for the beginning of the Spring Classics at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, which kicks off the ‘opening weekend’. The following one-day races included highlights on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix Femmes earlier than they culminated on the Ardennes Classics in April.
The stage racing season started in Could with three back-to-back top-tier occasions that included the La Vuelta Femenina – moved from its conventional September spot on the calendar – together with Itzulia Ladies and Vuelta a Burgos Feminas. The sequence then strikes to the UK for RideLondon Classique and The Ladies’s Tour, after which again to Europe for the Tour de Suisse.
Summer season stage racing moved into full swing in July with the revamped Giro d’Italia Ladies, adopted by the quadrennial Olympic Video games in Paris, and Tour de France Femmes, which was moved to August in 2024.
Late season racing begins with the one-day GP de Plouay adopted by a sequence of stage races: the Tour de Romandie in September then the Simac Women Tour, Tour of Chongming Island and the one-day Tour of Guangxi in October.
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Standings
Ladies’s WorldTour 2024 – Standings
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Rating as of August 24, 2024
Pos.
Rider Title (Nation) Staff
Factors
1
Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
3795.29
2
Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SD Worx-ProTime
3563
3
Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek
3259.14
4
Lorena Wiebes (Ned) SD Worx-ProTime
2429
5
Kasia Niewiadoma (Pol) Canyon-SRAM
2141
6
Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Lidl-Trek
2128
7
Marianne Vos (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike
1705.71
8
Neve Bradbury (Aus) Canyon-SRAM
1578
9
Evita Muzic (Fra) FDJ-SUEZ
1576.57
10
Juliette Labous (Fra) dsm-firmenich PostNL
1437.14
Historical past
Ladies’s WorldTour – Historical past
The Ladies’s WorldTour sequence changed the previous one-day World Cup in 2016 and has grown to incorporate 28 races – with a mixture of one-day and stage races – to supply the ladies’s peloton and biking followers 10 months {of professional} bike racing.
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An distinctive season noticed Demi Vollering (SD Worx) win the person total sequence on the finish of final yr.
Now-retired Annemiek van Vleuten received the sequence title 3 times – 2018, 2021 and 2022. Different earlier winners of the person elite girls’s rating embody Lizzie Deignan in 2020, Marianne Vos in 2019, Anna van der Breggen in 2017 and inaugural champion Megan Guarnier in 2016.
Many acquainted faces have left their marks as winners of one of the best younger rider classification, together with Shirin van Anrooij in 2023 and 2022, Niamh Fisher-Black in 2021, Liane Lippert in 2020, Lorena Wiebes in 2019, Sofia Bertizzolo in 2018, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig in 2017, and Kasia Niewiadoma in 2016, and all have gone on to grow to be predominant contenders within the elite girls’s ranks.
The groups classification has been dominated by one group, SD Worx (previously Boels Dolmans), which received the sequence seven occasions within the final seven seasons from 2016-2019 and once more in 2021-2023. Trek-Segafredo, now referred to as Lidl-Trek, is the one group to have damaged their profitable streak, taking victory in 2020.
Calendar
2024 Ladies’s WorldTour – Calendar
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Date
Occasion Title
Winner
January 12-14
Santos Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath
Sarah Gigante (Aus) AG Insurance coverage-Soudal
January 27
Cadel Evans Street Race
Rosita Reijnhout (Ned) Visma-Lease A Bike
February 8-11
UAE Tour
Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SD Worx-Protime
February 24
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Marianne Vos (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike
March 2
Strade Bianche
Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SD Worx-Protime
March 10
Ronde van Drenthe
Lorena Wiebes (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
March 17
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Lidl-Trek
March 21
Basic Brugge-De Panne
Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Lidl-Trek
March 24
Gent-Wevelgem
Lorena Wiebes (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
March 31
Tour of Flanders
Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek
April 6
Paris-Roubaix Femmes
Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SD Worx-Protime
April 14
Amstel Gold Race
Marianne Vos (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike
April 17
La Flèche Wallonne
Kasia Niewiadoma (Pol) Canyon-SRAM
April 21
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Grace Brown (Aus) FDJ-Suez
April 29-Could 5
La Vuelta Femenina
Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
Could 10-12
Itzulia Ladies
Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
Could 16-19
Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
Could 24-26
RideLondon Classique
Lorena Wiebes (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
June 4-9
Tour of Britain Ladies
Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SD Worx-Protime
June 15-18
Tour de Suisse Ladies
Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
July 7-14
Giro d’Italia Ladies
Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek
August 12-18
Tour de France Femmes
Kasia Niewiadoma (Pol) Canyon-SRAM
August 24
Basic Lorient Agglomération – Trophée Ceratizit
Mischa Bredewold (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
August 27-September 1
Tour of Scandinavia [Cancelled]
Row 23 – Cell 2
September 5-8
Tour de Romandie
Row 24 – Cell 2
October 8-13
Simac Women Tour
Row 25 – Cell 2
October 15-17
Tour of Chongming Island
Row 26 – Cell 2
October 20
Tour of Guangxi
Row 27 – Cell 2
Groups
2024 Ladies’s WorldTour – Groups
In a reset of the Ladies’s WorldTeams, the UCI has awarded 15 new licences for the 2024-2025 seasons, with AG Insurance coverage-Soudal and Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking shifting as much as the highest tier for the primary time.
To seek out out extra in regards to the groups, viewCyclingnews’ complete 2024 Ladies’s WorldTour team-by-team information.
The ladies’s groups now face a relegation system as the game’s governing physique launched a brand new ‘sporting’ requirement, which added collectively every group’s UCI factors throughout the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Nonetheless, this new factors requirement was considered alongside the opposite 4 standards: administrative, moral, monetary, and organisational.
The UCI launched minimal salaries for Ladies’s WorldTeams in 2020, and people elevated to €35,000 (employed) / €57,400 (self-employed) in 2024. The wage construction for a brand new skilled elevated to €29,270 (employed) / €47,986 (self-employed).
The very best-ranked three Continental girls’s groups on the UCI World Rating obtain automated invites, whereas the remaining Continental girls’s groups are invited on the discretion of the organisers. A most of 24 groups are permitted to begin every occasion on the Ladies’s WorldTour.
For stage races of six levels and extra of the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour, such because the Giro d’Italia Ladies, Tour de France Femmes, La Vuelta Femenina, Simac Women Tour, and Ladies’s Tour, groups will begin with seven riders and two group help autos.
Factors are awarded for the ultimate classification of every occasion in response to the next scale to the highest 40 positioned riders. The rider with essentially the most factors within the particular person classification wears the sequence chief’s jersey.
For group time trial occasions and levels, the factors on the dimensions are awarded to the group. These factors are then divided equally between the riders ending the occasion or the stage. Phases and half-stages provide a most of fifty and a minimal of six factors to the highest 10 positioned riders. Factors awarded for levels are recorded on the final day of the occasion.
A rider who wears a race chief’s jersey on every stage is awarded eight factors.
On the ultimate classification, the occasion’s prime 3 finest younger riders (under-23) are awarded 6, 4, and a pair of factors.
The group classifications embody each Ladies’s WorldTeams and Ladies’s Continental groups. The group classification is calculated by including the person classification factors scored by all of the riders of the group within the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour particular person rating.
Extra data concerning the Ladies’s WorldTour could be discovered beneath.
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Ladies’s WorldTour – Level Scale
Pos.
Factors
1
400
2
320
3
260
4
220
5
180
6
140
7
120
8
100
9
80
10
68
11
56
12
48
13
40
14
32
15
28
16-20
24
21-30
16
31-40
8
Races
Ladies’s WorldTour – Information to the races
Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath – January 12014, Australia
The Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath, which was cancelled in 2021 and 2022 because of the pandemic – was the season opener in January and has been elevated to the highest tier of races for the primary time because it started in 2016. The three-day race is held yearly in and round Adelaide and, for the primary time, features a finale on Willunga Hill in 2024.
Cadel Evans Street Race – January 27, Australia
The Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Street Race returned in 2023 after two years of absence because of the COVID-19 pandemic, however it has shaped a part of the Ladies’s WorldTour since 2020.
UAE Tour Ladies – February 8-11, United Arab Emirates
The inaugural occasion was held in 2023 as the ladies’s peloton headed to the Center East for the four-day race, which provides three dash alternatives and a summit end on stage 3 atop Jebel Hafeet.
Spring Classics
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad – February 24, Belgium
The long-running Classics curtain-raiser Omloop het Nieuwsblad joined the WorldTour for its 18th version as a part of ‘opening weekend’ final yr. Flanders Classics at present oversees six of the preferred Spring Classics, starting with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Brabantse Pijl.
Strade Bianche Ladies – March 2, Italy
After the Spring Classics opener at Omloop het Nieuwsblad, the Ladies’s WorldTour resumes at Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy. The race takes riders onto the white gravel roads routed all through the scenic Tuscany area and ending on the Piazza del Campo in Siena.
Ronde van Drenthe Ladies – March 10, Netherlands
The sprinter-friendly route between Assen and Hoogeveen is made up of a sequence of loops over cobbled sectors and 4 journeys up the VAM Berg, with 50km to the end line. Riders who’ve traditionally finished nicely on this race are highly effective one-day specialists on flatter terrain.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio – March 17, Italy
The sequence headed again to Italy for the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. The ladies’s subject historically races by way of the hills surrounding Cittiglio earlier than ending on 17.8-kilometre circuits across the metropolis. Every lap features a climb by way of Orino, however the wide-open roads to the end line usually cater to a lowered group dash.
Basic Brugge-De Panne Ladies – March 21, Belgium
This can be a race historically nicely suited to sprinters. The route begins in Brugge and passes by way of Leeuw, Koekelare and Schoorbakke, after which the competition strikes on to 2 ending circuits in De Panne.
Gent-Wevelgem Ladies – March 24, Belgium
The second of six Flanders Classics occasions after Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem is among the flatter one-day races and sometimes sees a conflict of the sprinters. The beginning of the race was moved from Ypres’ Grote Markt to the Menin Gate and included a number of predominant climbs, such because the Beneberg, Kemmelberg and Monteberg en path to the end in Wevelgem.
Tour of Flanders Ladies – March 31, Belgium
The Tour of Flanders, probably the most prestigious of the Spring Classics, begins and ends in Oudenaarde. It covers a mixture of cobbled sectors and steep climbs, together with the extra decisive climbs close to the tip of the race – Kruisberg/Hotond, Oude Kwaremont, and the Paterberg – earlier than the end line in Oudenaarde.
Paris-Roubaix Femmes – April 6, France
The inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2021 was a day written into the historical past books for each girls’s biking and for the first winner of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes – Lizzie Deignan. Her teammate, Elisa Longo Borghini, adopted up with one other win for Trek-Segafredo within the 2022 version and Alison Jackson (EF) received in 2023. The 116km route from Denain to the Roubaix Velodrome contains 17 sectors of cobbled roads, with two of the pavé sectors rated on the most issue stage – Mons-en-Pévèle and the Carrefour de l’Arbre.
Amstel Gold Race Women Version – April 14, Netherlands
The primary of the three Ardennes Classics. The race begins and finishes in Maastricht and features a hilly course that finishes on three 17.8-kilometre circuits that function the Geulhemmerberg, Bemelerberg and Cauberg. From the highest of the Cauberg, there’s roughly 1.7km to the end line.
La Flèche Wallonne Femmes – April 17, Belgium
La Flèche Wallonne is the oldest and the second of the three one-day races that type the ladies’s Ardennes Classics. The sequence has solely been in place for ladies since 2017, when Amstel Gold Race Women Version made its return after a 14-year hiatus, adopted by the long-running La Flèche Wallonne and the debut of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The one-day girls’s race is famed for its finale on the Mur de Huy, which the ladies’s peloton climbs 3 times. Now-retired Anna van der Breggen received a document seven consecutive titles at La Flèche Wallonne.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes – April 21, Belgium
Liège-Bastogne-Liège concludes the Ardennes Classics week earlier than riders flip their consideration to the stage racing season. The race began in Bastogne and, for the primary time final yr, ascended the Côte de Mont-le-Soie, earlier than tackling the Côte de Wanne and Côte de la Haute-Levée. The ultimate climbs, Côte de La Redoute and Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, have been tackled earlier than the end in Liège.
Stage Races
Tour de France Femmes (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
La Vuelta Femenina – April 29-Could 5, Spain
In a significant shake-up for the previous Ceratizit Problem by La Vuelta, organisers modified its title to La Vuelta Feminina, expanded to seven levels, and moved to Could in 2023. The occasion began as a one-day race in Madrid in 2015 and expanded to 2 levels in 2018, and a 3rd stage was added in 2020. The race was additional expanded in 2021 to 4 levels, and in 2022 to 5 levels, and 7 levels in 2023 and 2024.
Itzulia Ladies – Could 10-12, Spain
In its third version of the Ladies’s WorldTour, hosted by the identical organiers of the one-day race in Clásica San Sebastián, the race supplied three difficult levels by way of the mountainous Spanish Basque Nation. It’s organised by OCETA, which additionally runs the long-standing six-day Itzulia Basque Nation males’s stage race.
Vuelta a Burgos Feminas – Could 16-19, Spain
Vuelta a Burgos Feminas was upgraded to the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2021 and now concludes the triple top-tier stage races supplied in Could with 4 hilly levels.
The three top-tier stage races are held along side an impressive sequence of one-day races within the nation that embody Emakumeen Nafarroako Ladies’s Elite Classics, Navarra Ladies’s Elite Classics, Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar, Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria, and extra.
RideLondon Classique – Could 24-26, Nice Britain
RideLondon Classique has reworked from its origins as a one-day occasion right into a three-day race. RideLondon has been held as a one-day race and was added to the inaugural Ladies’s WorldTour calendar in 2016, however was cancelled in each 2020 and 2021. The RideLondon Classique grew to become a three-day occasion in 2022 and continued with this format in 2024.
Ladies’s Tour – June 4-9, Nice Britain
Organisers, SweetSpot, introduced parity to the occasion’s prize fund with the lads’s Tour of Britain, which was set at €97,880 throughout six days of racing in 2019. In addition they introduced a five-year plan to supply dwell protection of the ladies’s race, which is required to be a part of the top-tier sequence. Nonetheless, as a result of challenges surrounding the pandemic, they have been compelled to cut back the prize fund. Organisers goal to return to prize cash parity. The 2023 version was cancelled, and the six-day race returned in 2024.
Tour de Suisse Ladies – June 15-18, Switzerland
Happening in jap Switzerland, the Tour de Suisse Ladies was held in 2023 for the primary time in 4 editions as a Ladies’s WorldTour occasion. The primary Tour de Suisse for ladies was held i n 2001 as a five-day occasion, however went away for 20 years earlier than relaunching as a 2.1 ranked girls’s race going down on the opening weekend of the lads’s eight-day WorldTour Tour de Suisse. In 2021, Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) received the title, adopted in 2022 by Lucinda Model (Trek-Segafredo). Marlen Reusser (Staff SD Worx) received the general title in 2023.
Giro d’Italia Ladies – July 7-14, Italy
The Giro d’Italia Donne has been formally rebranded because the Giro d’Italia Ladies in 2024, with new race organiser RCS Sport taking on the administration of the race on a four-year contract by way of 2027. It’ll rejoice its twenty fifth anniversary. The occasion historically provides 10 days of racing and iconic mountain passes such because the Stelvio, Zoncolan, Gavia, and Mortirolo. This yr’s race has been lowered to seven levels however included a mountaintop end at Blockhaus.
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift – August 12-18, France
The rebirth of the Tour de France avec Zwift marked a history-making second within the sport in the course of the 2022 season, and received by Annemiek van Vleuten. As soon as once more internet hosting one of the best riders on the planet, in 2023, Demi Vollering secured the general victory. The third version of the fashionable incarnation of the ladies’s Tour de France was held after the Paris Olympic Video games with eight levels throughout seven days between Monday, August 12 and Sunday, August 18. Organisers supplied a complete of 946.3km of racing that included three flat levels for the sprinters, one particular person time trial, two hilly levels, two mountain levels and a crowning conclusion atop the long-lasting Alpe d’Huez.
Late-season rounds
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Basic Lorient Agglomération – Trophée Ceratizit – August 24, France
It marks the start of the wind-down to the season, Basic Lorient Agglomération – Trophée CERATIZIT – higher often called the GP de Plouay. Organisers launched a brand new parcour for the 2022 version with a 159.5km route that included a gap 127km loop. The race then completed on 2.5 laps of an 11.7km native circuit round Plouay. The laps included 3 times the climb of Le Lezot (900m at 5.5%, 14% part) and two occasions la bosse de Rostervel (1,500m at 4.5%, 10% part).
Tour of Scandinavia– August 27-September 1 – Norway/Denmark – [Cancelled]
Organisers of the previous Women Tour of Norway revealed their plans to maneuver forward with the long-awaited ‘Battle of the North’ in 2022. The occasion takes place throughout Denmark and Norway with a reputation change to the Tour of Scandinavia and has risen to grow to be probably the most well-liked stage races with a mountaintop end at Norefjell. Organisers cancelled the 2024 version as a result of lack of funding, however goal to return in 2025.
Tour de Romandie – September 5-9, Switzerland
Now in its third version, the ladies’s model of the Tour de Romandie takes the peloton into the Swiss mountains. The ladies’s four-day occasion marks the penultimate race of the top-tier sequence in Europe earlier than the peloton headed to China for the return of the Tour of Chongming Island and Tour of Guangxi.
Simac Women Tour – September October 8-13, Netherlands
The most important stage race within the Netherlands, becoming a member of the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2017, and it’s heading into its twenty fourth version. Organisers yearly welcome the highest girls’s groups to compete in six days of late-season racing. Former winners embody Leontien van Moorsel, Petra Rosner, Kristin Armstrong, and Annemiek van Vleuten, Lorena Wiebes, to call a couple of, whereas Marianne Vos has received the general title 4 occasions.
Tour of Chongming Island – October 15-17, China
The Tour of Chongming Island returned after a three-year hiatus in 2023. The race has historically been well-suited to sprinters as a result of it contains three flat levels, and that was the case once more this yr. Though the race was usually held in Could, it moved to an October date and was the final stage race of the season.
Tour of Guangxi – October 20, China
The Tour of Guangxi, additionally cancelled in 2020, 2021 and 2022, marked the conclusion of the 2023 Ladies’s WorldTour. Within the final version held in 2019, the ladies raced 146 kilometres with a begin and end in Guilin. The route was primarily flat, and it catered to the sprinters.
