2024 UCI Women's World Tour
| Ninth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 12 January – 20 October 2024 |
| Location | |
| Races | 27 |
The 2024 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition that includes twenty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2024 women's cycling season. It will 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 begins with the Women's Tour Down Under from 12 to 14 January, and finishes with the Tour of Guangxi on 20 October.[1][2]
Events
The race calendar for the 2024 season was announced in June 2023, with twenty eight races initially scheduled.[3] The calendar is largely similar to 2023, with the dates of races moved to accommodate the 2024 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Paralympics.[3] 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.[4]
| Race | Date | First | Second | Third |  Leader
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Women's Tour Down Under
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12–14 January | Sarah Gigante (AUS)
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 Nienke Vinke (NED)
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Neve Bradbury (AUS)
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Sarah Gigante (AUS)
|
| Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
|
27 January | Rosita Reijnhout (NED)
|
 Dominika Włodarczyk (POL)
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 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN)
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Dominika Włodarczyk (POL)
|
 UAE Tour
|
8–11 February |  Lotte Kopecky (BEL)
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Neve Bradbury (AUS)
|
 Mavi García (ESP)
|
Neve Bradbury (AUS)
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| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
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24 February | ||||
 Strade Bianche Donne
|
2 March | ||||
| Ronde van Drenthe
|
9 March | ||||
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
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17 March | ||||
| Classic Brugge–De Panne
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21 March | ||||
| Gent–Wevelgem
|
24 March | ||||
| Tour of Flanders
|
31 March | ||||
 Paris–Roubaix Femmes
|
6 April | ||||
| Amstel Gold Race
|
14 April | ||||
| La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
|
17 April | ||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
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21 April | ||||
| La Vuelta Femenina
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29 April – 5 May | ||||
| Itzulia Women
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10–12 May | ||||
| Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
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16–19 May | ||||
 RideLondon Classique
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24–26 May | ||||
 Tour de Suisse Women
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15–18 June | ||||
| Giro d'Italia Women
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7–14 July | ||||
| Tour de France Femmes
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12–18 August | ||||
| Classic Lorient Agglomération
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24 August | ||||
 / Tour of Scandinavia
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27 August – 1 September | ||||
| Tour de Romandie Féminin
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5–8 September | ||||
| Simac Ladies Tour
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8–13 September | ||||
 Tour of Chongming Island
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15–17 October | ||||
| Tour of Guangxi
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20 October |
Race cancellations
In January 2024, SweetSpot – the organiser and promoter of the The Women's Tour – entered liquidation and the race was removed from the 2024 calendar.[5][6]
2024 UCI Women's WorldTeams
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][7]
References
- ^ a b "UCI World Tour Races". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ a b Frattini, Kirsten (6 May 2023). "Women's WorldTour – The definitive guide for 2024". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Tour of Britain and Women's Tour no longer listed on UCI calendar". road.cc. 30 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "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.