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The UCI men's road racing world rankings are a points system used to rank men's road cycling riders. Points are awarded based on results in UCI sanctioned races, with points varying widely based on the importance and prestige of the race. The Tour de France grants the most points, with 1300 points going to the general classification winner. [1]
In 2023, the various UCI World Championships were held in the same location for the first time, with 190 world titles awarded at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. This will be held every 4 years in future, with the 2027 edition to be held in Haute-Savoie, France .
The first world championships took place in 1921, though the only event that was contested was the men's road race for amateurs. [2] The first professional world championship took place in July 1927 at the Nürburgring in Germany where Italian Alfredo Binda won the professional men's race and Belgian Jean Aerts won the men's amateur race.
The UCI organize the Road World Championships (road race first held in 1921, time trial first held in 1994), as well as administer the premier tier UCI World Tour and second tier UCI ProSeries races. The highest level teams in men's road cycling are the UCI WorldTeam, who are obliged to take part in all UCI World Tour races.
The UCI Road World Rankings was a men's system of ranking road bicycle racers based upon the results in all UCI-sanctioned races over a twelve-month period. The world rankings were first instituted by the UCI in 1984. The ranking is based on the results of last solar year and every races attribuited points based on their importance. [1]
European Championships: Munich, Germany [26] 1 km time trial: 1:06.144 Anastasiia Voinova Russia 8 August 2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia 3000m individual pursuit (sea level) 3:15.663 Chloé Dygert United States 19 October 2024 World Championships: Ballerup, Denmark [22] 3000m team pursuit [d] (progression) 3:14.051 Dani King Laura Trott Joanna ...
The UCI WorldTour is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits.It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an annual ranking system based upon performances in these.
It brings together the individual cycling disciplines, which hold separate UCI World Championships events, to be held as part of one event every 4 years; these disciplines will also continue to hold separate annual world championship events outside of the planned quadrennial editions. The inaugural edition was held in 2023, and further editions ...