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2024 UCI Women's World Tour

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For the men's 2024 UCI World Tour, see 2024 UCI World Tour.
2024 UCI Women's World Tour
Ninth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour
Details
Dates12 January – 20 October 2024
Location
Races27
Champions
Individual championLotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx–Protime)
Teams' championTeam SD Worx–Protime
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The 2024 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2024 women's cycling season. It was be the ninth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with the Women's Tour Down Under from 12 to 14 January, and finished with the Tour of Guangxi on 20 October.[1][2]

Belgian rider Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx–Protime) won the individual classification with 4596 points, after a close battle with her teammate Demi Vollering throughout the season. Kopecky had six overall victories, including Strade Bianche Donne and Paris–Roubaix Femmes.[3]

Second place went to Dutch rider Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx–Protime) with 4175 points. Vollering won four events, including La Vuelta Femenina. Third place was taken by Italian rider Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl–Trek) with 3327 points, with Longo Borghini winning two events – Giro d'Italia Women and Tour of Flanders.[3]

For the fourth year in a row, the teams classification was won by Team SD Worx–Protime – making it their eighth win in nine seasons. Thirteen different riders won races, with six riders holding the individual classification lead during the season.[3]

Events

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The race calendar for the 2024 season was announced in June 2023, with twenty eight races initially scheduled.[4] The calendar was largely similar to 2023, with the dates of races moved to accommodate the 2024 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Paralympics.[4] Rumoured events such as women's editions of the Giro di Lombardia or Milan–San Remo, or promotion of the Thüringen Ladies Tour to the World Tour calendar did not occur.[5]

In January 2024, SweetSpot – the organiser and promoter of The Women's Tour – entered liquidation and the race was initially removed from the 2024 calendar.[6][7] The following month, British Cycling took over the running of the race, which was to be renamed as the Tour of Britain Women, and the race returned to the calendar but over a shorter four-day itinerary.[8][9]

In May 2024, the Tour of Scandinavia was cancelled due to a lack of funding.[10]

Races in the 2024 UCI Women's World Tour[1]
Race Date First Second Third Leader
Australia Women's Tour Down Under 12–14 January  Sarah Gigante (AUS)  Nienke Vinke (NED)  Neve Bradbury (AUS)  Sarah Gigante (AUS)
Australia Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 27 January  Rosita Reijnhout (NED)  Dominika Włodarczyk (POL)  Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN)  Dominika Włodarczyk (POL)
United Arab Emirates UAE Tour 8–11 February  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Neve Bradbury (AUS)  Mavi García (ESP)  Neve Bradbury (AUS)
Belgium Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 24 February  Marianne Vos (NED)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)
Italy Strade Bianche Donne 2 March  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Demi Vollering (NED)
Netherlands Ronde van Drenthe 10 March  Lorena Wiebes (NED)  Elisa Balsamo (ITA)  Puck Pieterse (NED)
Italy Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 17 March  Elisa Balsamo (ITA)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Puck Pieterse (NED)
Belgium Classic Brugge–De Panne 21 March  Elisa Balsamo (ITA)  Charlotte Kool (NED)  Daria Pikulik (POL)
Belgium Gent–Wevelgem 24 March  Lorena Wiebes (NED)  Elisa Balsamo (ITA)  Chiara Consonni (ITA)
Belgium Tour of Flanders 31 March  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)  Shirin van Anrooij (NED)
France Paris–Roubaix Femmes 6 April  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Elisa Balsamo (ITA)  Pfeiffer Georgi (GBR)
Netherlands Amstel Gold Race 14 April  Marianne Vos (NED)  Lorena Wiebes (NED)  Ingvild Gåskjenn (NOR)
Belgium La Flèche Wallonne Féminine 17 April  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)  Demi Vollering (NED)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
Belgium Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes 21 April  Grace Brown (AUS)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Demi Vollering (NED)
Spain La Vuelta Femenina 28 April – 5 May  Demi Vollering (NED)  Riejanne Markus (NED)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
Spain Itzulia Women 10–12 May  Demi Vollering (NED)  Mischa Bredewold (NED)  Juliette Labous (FRA)
Spain Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 16–19 May  Demi Vollering (NED)  Évita Muzic (FRA)  Karlijn Swinkels (NED)  Demi Vollering (NED)
United Kingdom RideLondon Classique 24–26 May  Lorena Wiebes (NED)  Charlotte Kool (NED)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)
United Kingdom Tour of Britain Women 6–9 June  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Anna Henderson (GBR)  Christine Majerus (LUX)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)
Switzerland Tour de Suisse Women 15–18 June  Demi Vollering (NED)  Neve Bradbury (AUS)  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Demi Vollering (NED)
Italy Giro d'Italia Women 7–14 July  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Neve Bradbury (AUS)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)
France Tour de France Femmes 12–18 August  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)  Demi Vollering (NED)  Pauliena Rooijakkers (NED)  Demi Vollering (NED)
France Classic Lorient Agglomération 24 August  Mischa Bredewold (NED)  Chloé Dygert (USA)  Liane Lippert (GER)
Switzerland Tour de Romandie Féminin 6–8 September  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Demi Vollering (NED)  Gaia Realini (ITA)
Netherlands Simac Ladies Tour 8–13 October  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)  Franziska Koch (GER)  Zoe Bäckstedt (GBR)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)
China Tour of Chongming Island 15–17 October  Marta Lach (POL)  Mylène de Zoete (NED)  Scarlett Souren (NED)
China Tour of Guangxi 20 October  Sandra Alonso (ESP)  Giada Borghesi (ITA)  Marta Lach (POL)

2024 UCI Women's WorldTeams

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The fifteen Women's WorldTeams were automatically invited to compete in events, with the two best 2023 UCI Women's Continental Teams (Cofidis and Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team) also invited automatically. Other Continental women's teams were invited by the organisers of each race.[2][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "UCI World Tour Races". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b Frattini, Kirsten (6 May 2023). "Women's WorldTour – The definitive guide for 2024". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Road Rankings". www.uci.org. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  4. ^ a b Giuliani, Simone (30 June 2023). "Giro d'Italia Donne, Tour de France Femmes dates shuffled forward in 2024". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  5. ^ Giuliani, Simone (30 June 2023). "Giro d'Italia Donne, Tour de France Femmes dates shuffled forward in 2024". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024. there is no sign of the talked of women's editions of races like Milan-San Remo or Il Lombardia or a sought after step up for the long-running women's race like the Thüringen Ladies Tour.
  6. ^ Whittle, Jeremy (18 January 2024). "Women's Tour under threat as British cycling promoter goes into liquidation". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Tour of Britain and Women's Tour no longer listed on UCI calendar". road.cc. 30 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  8. ^ Ostanek, Daniel (2 February 2024). "British Cycling take over organisation of men's and women's Tour of Britain". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Tour of Britain Women". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  10. ^ Mickey, Abby (3 May 2024). "The Tour of Scandinavia will not take place in 2024". Escape Collective. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  11. ^ "Allocation of 15 UCI Women's WorldTour licences, and registration of UCI WorldTeams and UCI ProTeams for the 2024 season". www.uci.org. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
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