Ladies’s WorldTour – The definitive information for 2024

Overview

Skilled biking showcases 28 top-tier ladies’s occasions that make up the 2024 Ladies’s WorldTour calendar. The season begins yearly on the Tour Down Below and Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway Race as a part of a packed season of Australian summer time racing that started the New 12 months.

The collection then heads to the Center East for the UAE Tour, a four-day stage race held in February, earlier than going to Europe for the beginning of the Spring Classics at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, which kicks off the ‘opening weekend’. The following one-day races included highlights on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix Femmes earlier than they culminated on the Ardennes Classics in April.

The stage racing season started in Might with three back-to-back top-tier occasions that included the La Vuelta Femenina – moved from its conventional September spot on the calendar – together with Itzulia Ladies and Vuelta a Burgos Feminas. The collection then strikes to the UK for RideLondon Classique and The Ladies’s Tour, after which again to Europe for the Tour de Suisse.

Summer time stage racing moved into full swing in July with the revamped Giro d’Italia Ladies, adopted by the quadrennial Olympic Video games in Paris, and Tour de France Femmes, which was moved to August in 2024.

Late season racing started with the one-day GP de Plouay adopted by a collection of stage races: the Tour de Romandie in September then the Simac Women Tour, Tour of Chongming Island and eventually the one-day Tour of Guangxi in October.

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Standings

Ladies’s WorldTour 2024 – Standings

Historical past

Ladies’s WorldTour – Historical past

The Ladies’s WorldTour collection changed the previous one-day World Cup in 2016 and has grown to incorporate 28 races – with a mixture of one-day and stage races – to supply the ladies’s peloton and biking followers 10 months {of professional} bike racing. 

An distinctive season noticed Demi Vollering (SD Worx) win the person total collection on the finish of final yr.

Now-retired Annemiek van Vleuten gained the collection title 3 times – 2018, 2021 and 2022. Different earlier winners of the person elite ladies’s rating embrace Lizzie Deignan in 2020, Marianne Vos in 2019, Anna van der Breggen in 2017 and inaugural champion Megan Guarnier in 2016.

Many acquainted faces have left their marks as winners of the perfect younger rider classification, together with Shirin van Anrooij in 2023 and 2022, Niamh Fisher-Black in 2021, Liane Lippert in 2020, Lorena Wiebes in 2019, Sofia Bertizzolo in 2018, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig in 2017, and Kasia Niewiadoma in 2016, and all have gone on to develop into important contenders within the elite ladies’s ranks.

The groups classification has been dominated by one group, SD Worx (previously Boels Dolmans), which gained the collection seven occasions within the final seven seasons from 2016-2019 and once more in 2021-2023. Trek-Segafredo, now known as Lidl-Trek, is the one group to have damaged their profitable streak, taking victory in 2020.

Calendar

2024 Ladies’s WorldTour – Calendar

Groups

2024 Ladies’s WorldTour – Groups

In a reset of the Ladies’s WorldTeams, the UCI has awarded 15 new licences for the 2024-2025 seasons, with AG Insurance coverage-Soudal and Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking transferring as much as the highest tier for the primary time.

To search out out extra concerning the groups, view Cyclingnews’ complete 2024 Ladies’s WorldTour team-by-team information.

The ladies’s groups now face a relegation system as the game’s governing physique launched a brand new ‘sporting’ requirement, which added collectively every group’s UCI factors throughout the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Nevertheless, this new factors requirement was considered alongside the opposite 4 standards: administrative, moral, monetary, and organisational. 

The UCI launched minimal salaries for Ladies’s WorldTeams in 2020, and people elevated to €35,000 (employed) / €57,400 (self-employed) in 2024. The wage construction for a brand new skilled elevated to €29,270 (employed) / €47,986 (self-employed).

The very best-ranked three Continental ladies’s groups on the UCI World Rating obtain automated invites, whereas the remaining Continental ladies’s groups are invited on the discretion of the organisers. A most of 24 groups are permitted to start out every occasion on the Ladies’s WorldTour.

For stage races of six levels and extra of the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour, such because the Giro d’Italia Ladies, Tour de France Femmes, La Vuelta Femenina, Simac Women Tour, and Ladies’s Tour, groups will begin with seven riders and two group assist automobiles.

Factors

2024 Ladies’s WorldTour – Factors

Factors are awarded for the ultimate classification of every occasion based on the next scale to the highest 40 positioned riders. The rider with essentially the most factors within the particular person classification wears the collection chief’s jersey.

For group time trial occasions and levels, the factors on the size are awarded to the group. These factors are then divided equally between the riders ending the occasion or the stage. Levels and half-stages provide a most of fifty and a minimal of six factors to the highest 10 positioned riders. Factors awarded for levels are recorded on the final day of the occasion. 

A rider who wears a race chief’s jersey on every stage is awarded eight factors.

On the ultimate classification, the occasion’s high 3 greatest younger riders (under-23) are awarded 6, 4, and a couple of factors. 

The group classifications embrace each Ladies’s WorldTeams and Ladies’s Continental groups. The group classification is calculated by including the person classification factors scored by all of the riders of the group within the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour particular person rating.

Extra data relating to the Ladies’s WorldTour could be discovered beneath.

Races

Ladies’s WorldTour – Information to the races

Ladies’s Tour Down Below – January 12-14, Australia

The Ladies’s Tour Down Below, which was cancelled in 2021 and 2022 as a result of pandemic – was the season opener in January and has been elevated to the highest tier of races for the primary time because it started in 2016. The three-day race is held yearly in and round Adelaide and, for the primary time, included a finale on Willunga Hill in 2024.

Cadel Evans Highway Race – January 27, Australia

The Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway Race returned in 2023 after two years of absence as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, but it surely has shaped a part of the Ladies’s WorldTour since 2020. 

UAE Tour Ladies – February 8-11, United Arab Emirates

The inaugural occasion was held in 2023 as the ladies’s peloton headed to the Center East for the four-day race, which supplied three dash alternatives and a summit end on stage 3 atop Jebel Hafeet.

Spring Classics

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad – February 24, Belgium

The long-running Classics curtain-raiser Omloop het Nieuwsblad joined the WorldTour for its 18th version as a part of ‘opening weekend’ final yr. Flanders Classics presently oversees six of the preferred Spring Classics, starting with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Brabantse Pijl. 

Strade Bianche Ladies – March 2, Italy

After the Spring Classics opener at Omloop het Nieuwsblad, the Ladies’s WorldTour resumes at Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy. The race takes riders onto the white gravel roads routed all through the scenic Tuscany area and ending on the Piazza del Campo in Siena. 

Ronde van Drenthe Ladies – March 10, Netherlands

The sprinter-friendly route between Assen and Hoogeveen is made up of a collection of loops over cobbled sectors and 4 journeys up the VAM Berg, with 50km to the end line. Riders who’ve traditionally executed properly on this race are highly effective one-day specialists on flatter terrain.

Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio – March 17, Italy

The collection headed again to Italy for the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. The ladies’s subject historically races by the hills surrounding Cittiglio earlier than ending on 17.8-kilometre circuits across the metropolis. Every lap features a climb by Orino, however the wide-open roads to the end line typically cater to a lowered group dash.

Basic Brugge-De Panne Ladies – March 21, Belgium

This can be a race historically properly suited to sprinters. The route begins in Brugge and passes by Leeuw, Koekelare and Schoorbakke, after which the competition strikes on to 2 ending circuits in De Panne.

Gent-Wevelgem Ladies – March 24, Belgium

The second of six Flanders Classics occasions after Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem is among the flatter one-day races and sometimes sees a conflict of the sprinters. The beginning of the race was moved from Ypres’ Grote Markt to the Menin Gate and included a number of important climbs, such because the Beneberg, Kemmelberg and Monteberg en path to the end in Wevelgem.

Tour of Flanders Ladies – March 31, Belgium

The Tour of Flanders, one of the vital prestigious of the Spring Classics, begins and ends in Oudenaarde. It covers a mix of cobbled sectors and steep climbs, together with the extra decisive climbs close to the tip of the race – Kruisberg/Hotond, Oude Kwaremont, and the Paterberg – earlier than the end line in Oudenaarde.

Paris-Roubaix Femmes – April 6, France

The inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2021 was a day written into the historical past books for each ladies’s biking and for the first winner of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes – Lizzie Deignan.  Her teammate, Elisa Longo Borghini, adopted up with one other win for Trek-Segafredo within the 2022 version and Alison Jackson (EF) gained in 2023. The 116km route from Denain to the Roubaix Velodrome contains 17 sectors of cobbled roads, with two of the pavé sectors rated on the most problem degree – Mons-en-Pévèle and the Carrefour de l’Arbre.

Amstel Gold Race Women Version – April 14, Netherlands

The primary of the three Ardennes Classics. The race begins and finishes in Maastricht and features a hilly course that finishes on three 17.8-kilometre circuits that characteristic the Geulhemmerberg, Bemelerberg and Cauberg. From the highest of the Cauberg, there’s roughly 1.7km to the end line.

La Flèche Wallonne Femmes – April 17, Belgium

La Flèche Wallonne is the oldest and the second of the three one-day races that kind the ladies’s Ardennes Classics. The collection has solely been in place for girls since 2017, when Amstel Gold Race Women Version made its return after a 14-year hiatus, adopted by the long-running La Flèche Wallonne and the debut of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The one-day ladies’s race is famed for its finale on the Mur de Huy, which the ladies’s peloton climbs 3 times. Now-retired Anna van der Breggen gained a file seven consecutive titles at La Flèche Wallonne.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes – April 21, Belgium

Liège-Bastogne-Liège concludes the Ardennes Classics week earlier than riders flip their consideration to the stage racing season. The race began in Bastogne and, for the primary time final yr, ascended the Côte de Mont-le-Soie, earlier than tackling the Côte de Wanne and Côte de la Haute-Levée. The ultimate climbs, Côte de La Redoute and Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, had been tackled earlier than the end in Liège.

Stage Races

La Vuelta Femenina –  April 29-Might 5, Spain

In a significant shake-up for the previous Ceratizit Problem by La Vuelta, organisers modified its title to La Vuelta Feminina, expanded to seven levels, and moved to Might in 2023. The occasion began as a one-day race in Madrid in 2015 and expanded to 2 levels in 2018, and a 3rd stage was added in 2020. The race was additional expanded in 2021 to 4 levels, and in 2022 to 5 levels, and 7 levels in 2023 and 2024.

Itzulia Ladies – Might 10-12, Spain

In its third version of the Ladies’s WorldTour, hosted by the identical organiers of the one-day race in Clásica San Sebastián, the race supplied three difficult levels by the mountainous Spanish Basque Nation. It’s organised by OCETA, which additionally runs the long-standing six-day Itzulia Basque Nation males’s stage race.

Vuelta a Burgos Feminas – Might 16-19, Spain

Vuelta a Burgos Feminas was upgraded to the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2021 and now concludes the triple top-tier stage races supplied in Might with 4 hilly levels.

The three top-tier stage races are held along side an impressive collection of one-day races within the nation that embrace Emakumeen Nafarroako Ladies’s Elite Classics, Navarra Ladies’s Elite Classics, Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar, Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria, and extra.

RideLondon Classique – Might 24-26, Nice Britain

RideLondon Classique has remodeled from its origins as a one-day occasion right into a three-day race. RideLondon has been held as a one-day race and was added to the inaugural Ladies’s WorldTour calendar in 2016, however was cancelled in each 2020 and 2021. The RideLondon Classique turned a three-day occasion in 2022 and continued with this format in 2024.

Ladies’s Tour – June 4-9, Nice Britain

Organisers, SweetSpot, introduced parity to the occasion’s prize fund with the lads’s Tour of Britain, which was set at €97,880 throughout six days of racing in 2019. Additionally they introduced a five-year plan to supply dwell protection of the ladies’s race, which is required to be a part of the top-tier collection. Nevertheless, attributable to challenges surrounding the pandemic, they had been pressured to scale back the prize fund. Organisers purpose to return to prize cash parity. The 2023 version was cancelled, and the six-day race returned in 2024.

Tour de Suisse Ladies – June 15-18, Switzerland

Going down in japanese Switzerland, the Tour de Suisse Ladies was held in 2023 for the primary time in 4 editions as a Ladies’s WorldTour occasion. The primary Tour de Suisse for girls was held i n 2001 as a five-day occasion, however went away for 20 years earlier than relaunching as a 2.1 ranked ladies’s race going down on the opening weekend of the lads’s eight-day WorldTour Tour de Suisse. In 2021, Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) gained the title, adopted in 2022 by Lucinda Model (Trek-Segafredo). Marlen Reusser (Crew SD Worx) gained the general title in 2023.

Giro d’Italia Ladies – July 7-14, Italy

The Giro d’Italia Donne has been formally rebranded because the Giro d’Italia Ladies in 2024, with new race organiser RCS Sport taking up the administration of the race on a four-year contract by 2027. It’s going to have fun its twenty fifth anniversary. The occasion historically provides 10 days of racing and iconic mountain passes such because the Stelvio, Zoncolan, Gavia, and Mortirolo. This yr’s race has been lowered to seven levels however included a mountaintop end at Blockhaus.

Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift – August 12-18, France

The rebirth of the Tour de France avec Zwift marked a history-making second within the sport through the 2022 season, and gained by Annemiek van Vleuten. As soon as once more internet hosting the perfect riders on the planet, in 2023, Demi Vollering secured the general victory. The third version of the fashionable incarnation of the ladies’s Tour de France was held after the Paris Olympic Video games with eight levels throughout seven days between Monday, August 12 and Sunday, August 18. Organisers supplied a complete of 946.3km of racing that included three flat levels for the sprinters, one particular person time trial, two hilly levels, two mountain levels and a crowning conclusion atop the enduring Alpe d’Huez.

Late-season rounds

 Basic Lorient Agglomération – Trophée Ceratizit – August 24, France

It marks the start of the wind-down to the season, Basic Lorient Agglomération – Trophée CERATIZIT – higher often known as the GP de Plouay. Organisers launched a brand new parcour for the 2022 version with a 159.5km route that included a gap 127km loop. The race then completed on 2.5 laps of an 11.7km native circuit round Plouay.  The laps included 3 times the climb of Le Lezot (900m at 5.5%, 14% part) and two occasions la bosse de Rostervel (1,500m at 4.5%, 10% part). 

Tour of Scandinavia – August 27-September 1 – Norway/Denmark –  [Cancelled]

Organisers of the previous Women Tour of Norway revealed their plans to maneuver forward with the long-awaited ‘Battle of the North’ in 2022. The occasion takes place throughout Denmark and Norway with a reputation change to the Tour of Scandinavia and has risen to develop into one of the vital in style stage races with a mountaintop end at Norefjell. Organisers cancelled the 2024 version attributable to lack of funding, however purpose to return in 2025.

Tour de Romandie – September 5-9, Switzerland

Now in its third version, the ladies’s model of the Tour de Romandie takes the peloton into the Swiss mountains. The ladies’s four-day occasion marks the penultimate race of the top-tier collection in Europe earlier than the peloton heads to China for the return of the Tour of Chongming Island and Tour of Guangxi.

Simac Women Tour – October 8-13, Netherlands

The most important stage race within the Netherlands, becoming a member of the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2017, and it’s heading into its twenty fourth version. Organisers yearly welcome the highest ladies’s groups to compete in six days of late-season racing. Former winners embrace Leontien van Moorsel, Petra Rosner, Kristin Armstrong, and Annemiek van Vleuten, Lorena Wiebes, to call a couple of, whereas Marianne Vos has gained the general title 4 occasions.

Tour of Chongming Island – October 15-17, China 

The Tour of Chongming Island returned after a three-year hiatus in 2023. The race has historically been well-suited to sprinters as a result of it contains three flat levels, and that was the case once more this yr. Though the race was usually held in Might, it moved to an October date and was the final stage race of the season.

Tour of Guangxi – October 20, China

The Tour of Guangxi, additionally cancelled in 2020, 2021 and 2022, marked the conclusion of the 2023 Ladies’s WorldTour. Within the final version held in 2019, the ladies raced 146 kilometres with a begin and end in Guilin. The route was primarily flat, and it catered to the sprinters.