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]
| Ninth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 12 January – 20 October 2024 |
| Location | |
| Races | 27 |
| Champions | |
| Individual champion | Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx–Protime) |
| Teams' champion | Team SD Worx–Protime |
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
editThe 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]
2024 UCI Women's WorldTeams
editThe 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
edit- ^ 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 c "Road Rankings". www.uci.org. Retrieved 20 October 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Tour of Britain Women". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ Mickey, Abby (3 May 2024). "The Tour of Scandinavia will not take place in 2024". Escape Collective. Retrieved 3 May 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.
