2021 UCI Women's World Tour
| Sixth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 6 March – 19 October 2021 |
| Location | |
| Races | 21 |
The 2021 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition that includes twenty-one road cycling events throughout the 2021 women's cycling season. It is the sixth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition is scheduled to begin with Strade Bianche on 6 March.
Events
The race calendar for the 2021 season was announced in July 2020,[1] with twenty-five races initially scheduled – up from twenty-one that were scheduled to be held in 2020. Two Spanish races – the Itzulia Women and the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas – were scheduled to be part of the calendar for the first time.[2] Paris–Roubaix, which featured on the revised 2020 schedule after the suspension of racing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, also returned to the calendar, as did the RideLondon Classique after a year's absence. In September 2020, the Giro d'Italia Femminile was removed from the calendar, being downgraded to 2.Pro status.[3]
On 1 November 2020, La Course by Le Tour de France was moved forward three weeks from 18 July to 27 June; this was as a result of the route being contested on the second day of the 2021 Tour de France, finishing at the Mûr-de-Bretagne.[4]
| Race | Date | First | Second | Third |  Leader
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Strade Bianche
|
6 March | ||||
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
|
21 March | ||||
 Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
|
25 March | ||||
| Gent–Wevelgem
|
28 March | ||||
| Tour of Flanders
|
4 April | ||||
 Paris–Roubaix
|
11 April | ||||
 Amstel Gold Race
|
18 April | ||||
| La Flèche Wallonne
|
21 April | ||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège
|
25 April | ||||
 Tour of Chongming Island
|
6–8 May | ||||
 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
|
20–23 May | ||||
 The Women's Tour
|
7–12 June | ||||
| La Course by Le Tour de France
|
27 June | ||||
 Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden TTT
|
7 August | ||||
| Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden
|
8 August | ||||
 Ladies Tour of Norway
|
12–15 August | ||||
| Holland Ladies Tour
|
24–29 August | ||||
| GP de Plouay–Lorient–Agglomération Trophée Ceratizit
|
30 August | ||||
| Ceratizit Challenge by la Vuelta
|
3–5 September | ||||
| Tour of Guangxi
|
19 October | ||||
| Ronde van Drenthe
|
TBA[a] |
Cancelled and postponed events
On 1 November 2020, the season-opening Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race was cancelled due to quarantine and border restriction issues attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] The organisers of the Ronde van Drenthe announced that they had applied to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to move the race from the assigned date of 14 March to the last weekend of October.[7][8] In January 2021, both the Itzulia Women and the RideLondon Classique were cancelled as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10]
Notes
- ^ The Ronde van Drenthe was initially scheduled for 14 March, but organisers requested a date change due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.[5]
References
- ^ "The UCI reveals the 2021 calendars for the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women's WorldTour". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ "UCI reveals 2021 Women's WorldTour calendar". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ Ostanek, Daniel (25 September 2020). "Giro Rosa downgraded from UCI Women's WorldTour for 2021". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ "La Course by le Tour de France to feature six ascents of Mûr de Bretagne". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 1 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
La Course by le Tour de France will be 130km long in total, with five circuits on the same day as the Tour de France men's stage 2.
- ^ "2021 road calendar COVID-19 cancellations". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "2021 Tour Down Under cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 1 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ "Ronde van Drenthe organisers already looking to move to October in 2021". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- ^ "RONDE VAN DRENTHE WIL VERHUIZEN NAAR OKTOBER". Ronde van Drenthe. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (27 January 2021). "Setmana Ciclista Valenciana and Itzulia Women's races added to growing list of cancellations in 2021". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "RideLondon festival of cycling cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic". ITV Sport. ITV plc. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.