2007 UCI ProTour | |
Edition: | 3 |
Competition: | UCI ProTour |
Dates: | March 11 – October 20 |
Location: | Europe |
Rounds: | 26 |
Nations Champion: | ![]() |
Previous: | 2006 |
Next: | 2008 |
The 2007 UCI ProTour was the third year of the UCI ProTour system. Following a dispute and power struggle between the UCI and the organisers of the Grand Tours, ASO, RCS and Unipublic, a number of events were run as ProTour events, although without ProTour licences. Races counted towards the ProTour standings, although the organisers were not obliged to invite all 20 UCI ProTeams, notably not inviting Unibet.com.
After numerous doping scandals in previous years, culminating with Floyd Landis' doping scandal in the 2006 Tour de France, the team was disbanded when the new title sponsor, iShares, decided to cease sponsoring and pull out of cycling. As of December, 2006, the ProTour license abandoned by Phonak has been granted to the, and the Active Bay group of Manolo Saiz has lost its license, which was given to the . The links between the ProTour and the organisers of the three Grand Tours (ASO, RCS MediaGroup and Unipublic) remain strained.
The 2007 Paris–Nice race was the focus of a dispute between (ASO) and the UCI. ASO have requested that the 2007 edition be downgraded from ProTour status to NE (national calendar status), therefore lacking UCI world-ranking points and threatening the participation of the ProTeams.[1] This was resolved to an extent though and Paris–Nice took place as the first ProTour race of the season, although without .
width=100px | Dates | Race | width=200px | Winner | width=200px | ProTour leader |
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March 11 - 18 | ![]() | | align=center rowspan="4" | | ||
March 14 - 20 | ![]() | | ||||
March 24 | ![]() | | ||||
April 8 | ![]() | | ||||
April 11 | | align=center rowspan="2" | | |||
April 9 - 14 | | |||||
April 15 | ![]() | | | |||
April 22 | | align=center rowspan="5" | | |||
April 25 | ![]() | | ||||
April 29 | ![]() | | ||||
May 1 - 6 | Tour de Romandie | | ||||
May 21 - 27 | ![]() | | ||||
May 12 - June 3 | ![]() | | align=center rowspan="13" | | ||
June 10 - 17 | ![]() | | ||||
June 16 - 24 | Tour de Suisse | | ||||
June 24 | TTT Eindhoven | |||||
July 7 - 29 | ![]() | | ||||
August 4 | ![]() | | ||||
August 10 - 18 | Deutschland Tour | | ||||
August 19 | Vattenfall Cyclassics | | ||||
August 22 - 29 | ![]() | | ||||
September 2 | ![]() | | ||||
September 1 - 23 | ![]() | | ||||
September 9 - 15 | ![]() | | ||||
October 14 | ![]() | | ||||
October 20 | ![]() | | | |||
Züri-Metzgete race was scheduled in Switzerland for October 7, but the race was cancelled.
Place | Tour de France | Giro d'Italia Vuelta a España | Milan–San Remo Tour of Flanders Paris–Roubaix Liège–Bastogne–Liège Giro di Lombardia Lesser stage races | Lesser one-day races | Eindhoven Time Trial | |
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Overall Classification | ||||||
1st | 100 | 85 | 50 | 40 | 10 | |
2nd | 75 | 65 | 40 | 30 | 9 | |
3rd | 60 | 50 | 35 | 25 | 8 | |
4th | 55 | 45 | 30 | 20 | 7 | |
5th | 50 | 40 | 25 | 15 | 6 | |
6th | 45 | 35 | 20 | 11 | 5 | |
7th | 40 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 4 | |
8th | 35 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 3 | |
9th | 30 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
10th | 25 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
11th | 20 | 16 | ||||
12th | 15 | 13 | ||||
13th | 12 | 11 | ||||
14th | 10 | 9 | ||||
15th | 8 | 7 | ||||
16th | 6 | 5 | ||||
17th | 5 | 4 | ||||
18th | 4 | 3 | ||||
19th | 3 | 2 | ||||
20th | 2 | 1 | ||||
Stage wins (if applicable) | ||||||
1st | 10 | 8 | 3 | |||
2nd | 5 | 4 | 2 | |||
3rd | 3 | 2 | 1 |