2024 UCI Women's World Tour explained

2024 UCI Women's World Tour
Edition:9
Competition:UCI Women's World Tour
Dates:12 January – 20 October 2024
Rounds:27
Previous:2023
Next:2025

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. 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]

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.[5] [6] 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.[7] [8]

In May 2024, the Tour of Scandinavia was cancelled due to a lack of funding.[9]

Races in the 2024 UCI Women's World Tour
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Women's Tour Down Under12–14 January
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race27 January
scope=row UAE Tour8–11 February
scope=row Omloop Het Nieuwsblad24 February
scope=row Strade Bianche Donne2 March
scope=row Ronde van Drenthe10 March
scope=row Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio17 March
scope=row Classic Brugge–De Panne21 March
scope=row Gent–Wevelgem24 March
scope=row Tour of Flanders31 March
scope=row Paris–Roubaix Femmes6 April
scope=row Amstel Gold Race14 April
scope=row La Flèche Wallonne Féminine17 April
scope=row Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes21 April
scope=row La Vuelta Femenina28 April – 5 May
scope=row Itzulia Women10–12 May
scope=row Vuelta a Burgos Feminas16–19 May
scope=row RideLondon Classique24–26 May
scope=row Tour of Britain Women6–9 June
scope=row Tour de Suisse Women15–18 June
scope=row Giro d'Italia Women7–14 July
scope=row Tour de France Femmes12–18 August
scope=row Classic Lorient Agglomération24 August
scope=row Tour de Romandie Féminin5–8 September
scope=row Simac Ladies Tour8–13 September
scope=row Tour of Chongming Island15–17 October
scope=row Tour of Guangxi20 October

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 (and) also invited automatically. Other Continental women's teams were invited by the organisers of each race.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UCI World Tour Races . 20 October 2023 . procyclingstats.com .
  2. Web site: Frattini . Kirsten . 6 May 2023 . Women's WorldTour – The definitive guide for 2024 . 15 January 2024 . cyclingnews.com . en.
  3. Web site: Giuliani . Simone . 30 June 2023 . Giro d'Italia Donne, Tour de France Femmes dates shuffled forward in 2024 . 15 January 2024 . cyclingnews.com . en.
  4. Web site: Giuliani . Simone . 30 June 2023 . Giro d'Italia Donne, Tour de France Femmes dates shuffled forward in 2024 . 15 January 2024 . cyclingnews.com . en . 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..
  5. News: Whittle . Jeremy . 18 January 2024 . Women’s Tour under threat as British cycling promoter goes into liquidation . 31 January 2024 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  6. Web site: 30 January 2024 . Tour of Britain and Women's Tour no longer listed on UCI calendar . 31 January 2024 . road.cc . en.
  7. News: Daniel. Ostanek. British Cycling take over organisation of men's and women's Tour of Britain. Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 2 February 2024. 18 February 2024.
  8. Web site: Tour of Britain Women. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 18 February 2024.
  9. News: Abby. Mickey. Abigail Mickey. The Tour of Scandinavia will not take place in 2024. Escape Collective. 3 May 2024. 3 May 2024.
  10. Web site: Allocation of 15 UCI Women's WorldTour licences, and registration of UCI WorldTeams and UCI ProTeams for the 2024 season . 15 January 2024 . www.uci.org . en-gb.