UCI WorldTour 2020

UCI WorldTour 2020
General
organizer		Union Cycliste Internationale
sport		Road cycling
Competition period		January 21st - October 20th
Race locations		Australia, Asia, North America, Europe
output		10th edition
Attendees		UCI WorldTeams
Competitions		36
Official website		uciworldtour.com
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The UCI WorldTour 2020 is the 10th edition of the highest racing series in men's road cycling .

Planning

According to the plans of the UCI - after the cancellation of the California tour originally listed in the calendar - the UCI WorldTour 2020 comprised 36 stage and one-day races on four continents , including the three-week Grand Tours Tour de France , Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España , as well important classics , including the five monuments of cycling Milan – Sanremo , Tour of Flanders , Paris – Roubaix , Liège – Bastogne – Liège and Tour of Lombardy . The competitions are scheduled to take place from January to October 2020. The tour of Turkey is no longer listed in the WorldTour calendar, as it was unable to guarantee the minimum presence of 10 UCI WorldTeams in the previous two editions .

The specially licensed UCI WorldTeams, who are obliged to start all races that were already on the calendar in 2016, are entitled to start. Due to a reform of road cycling, selected UCI ProTeams are also based on the sporting results , but they are not obliged to start. Further UCI ProTeams can be invited by the respective organizer of a race of their choice. A national team from the host country is also eligible to participate with the approval of the Professional Cycling Council .

As an innovation, the UCI Classics Series should be introduced in 2020 , in which the one-day races of the UCI WorldTour should be summarized. In contrast to the UCI WorldTour itself, which has not had its own overall ranking since 2019 , an overall winner should be awarded after this one-day racing series has been completed. In December 2019, the UCI announced that it would postpone the UCI Classics Series with the aim of introducing the racing series later in agreement with the teams, race organizers and drivers.

Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

After the UAE Tour was shortened by two days at the end of February as a result of positive tests for the COVID-19 pathogen SARS-CoV-2, the cancellation of the beginning and end due to official requirements in connection with the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy Strade Bianche , Tirreno – Adriatico and Milan – Sanremo races scheduled for mid-March . The organizer said he would try to catch up on the races at another time. Furthermore, Paris – Nice was shortened by one day due to the pandemic . Further cancellations followed due to the pandemic .

On May 5, 2020, the UCI announced the new racing calendar for the WorldTour, which, in addition to numerous postponements, also included the pandemic-related cancellations of the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen , the Tour de Romandie , the Tour de Suisse , the Volta a Catalunya , the Tour of the Basque Country and the Clásica San Sebastian took into account. The organizers of the WorldTour one-day races were given the opportunity to reduce the number of starters per team to six; if the organizers do not make use of this, the teams can choose between six and seven starters. The number of starters per team in the GrandTours remained at eight and that in other WorldTour stage races at seven. At a meeting of the UCI's Management Committee , further adjustments were made, including further rejections. At the beginning of August, the Tour of Guangxi , which had meanwhile been postponed to November 5 to 10, 2020, was finally canceled.

run

original appointment	actual or alternative date	run	Points	winner
21-26 January	21-26 January	Tour down under	0500	Richie Porte ( TFS )
February 2nd	February 2nd	C. Evans Great Ocean Race	0300	Dries Devenyns ( DQT )
23-29 February	23-27 February	UAE tour	0300	Adam Yates ( MTS )
February 29th	February 29th	Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	0300	Jasper Stuyven ( TFS )
7th March	August 1st	Strade Bianche	0300	Wout van Aert ( TJV )
8-15 March	8-14 March	Paris – Nice	0500	Maximilian Schachmann ( BOH )
11-17 March	7-14 September	Tirreno-Adriatico	0500
March 21st	8th August	Milan – Sanremo	0500	Wout van Aert ( TJV )
23-29 March	called off	Tour of Catalonia	0500	called off
25th March	October 21	Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne	0300
27th of March	called off	Flanders E3 Prize	0400	called off
March 29	October 11th	Gent – ​​Wevelgem	0400
April 1st	called off	Dwars door Vlaanderen	0300	called off
April 5th	October 18	Tour of Flanders	0500
6-11 April	called off	Basque Country Tour	0500	called off
12. April	October 25	Paris – Roubaix	0500
April 19th	October 10th	Amstel Gold Race	0500
April 22	30. September	La Flèche Wallonne	0400	'
26th of April	4th of October	Liège – Bastogne – Liège	0500
April 30–5. May	called off	Tour de Romandie	0500	called off
1st of May	called off	Eschborn – Frankfurt	0300	called off
9.-31. May	3rd - 25th October	Giro d'Italia ( details )	0850
10-16 May	called off	California tour	0300	called off
May 31st - 7th June	12-16 August	Critérium du Dauphiné	0500	Daniel Felipe Martínez ( EF1 )
6-14 June	called off	Tour de Suisse	0500	called off
June 27th – 19th July	August 29th - September 20th	Tour de France ( details )	1000
5th-11th July	5th-9th August	Tour of Poland	0500	Remco Evenepoel ( DQT )
July 25th	called off	Clásica San Sebastián	0400	called off
14 Aug-6 Sep	October 20 - November 8	Vuelta a España	0850
August 16	called off	Prudential RideLondon	0300	called off
August 16	October 3	Cyclassics Hamburg	0400	called off
August 23	August 25	Brittany Classic	0400	Michael Matthews ( SUN )
31st August – 6th September	September 29th - October 3rd	/ BinckBank Tour	0500
September 11		GP de Québec	0500
13.september		GP de Montréal	0500
October 10th	15th of August	Il Lombardia	0500	Jakob Fuglsang ( AST )
15-20 October	called off	Gree tour of Guangxi	0300	called off

Teams

In October 2019, the UCI announced that among the applicants for a UCI WorldTeam license, all WorldTeams from the previous year and the former UCI Professional Continental Team Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (name 2020: Cofidis ) had met the sporting criterion of a license. The Israel Cycling Academy team (name 2020: Israel Start-Up Nation ) took over the license of the disbanded Katusha Alpecin team . Among the applicants for a license as a UCI ProTeam, Total Direct Énergie qualified for mandatory invitations in all competitions and Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team (name 2020: Circus-Wanty Gobert ) qualified for mandatory invitations in the WorldTour one-day races. The final licensing as a prerequisite for the status as a WorldTeam was made by the decision of the licensing commission based on administrative, ethical and financial criteria. Finally, all athletically qualified teams - most recently Mitchelton-Scott - were licensed as a WorldTeam.

Name (UCI code)	operator	nationality	Wheel manufacturer
Ag2r La Mondiale (ALM)	EUSRL France Cyclisme	France	Eddy Merckx
Astana Pro Team (AST)	Olympus Sarl	Kazakhstan	Argon 18
Bahrain-McLaren (TBM)	Bahrain World Tour Cycling Team	Bahrain	Merida
Bora-hansgrohe (BOH)	Ralph Denk pro cycling GmbH	Germany	Specialized
CCC Team (CPT)	Continuum Sports LLC	Poland	Giant
Cofidis (COF)	Cofidis Compétition EUSRL	France	De Rosa
Deceuninck-Quick-Step (DQT)	Decolef lux sarl	Belgium	Specialized
EF Pro Cycling (EF1)	Slipstream Sports, LLC	United States	Cannondale
Groupama-FDJ (GFC)	Société de Gestion de L'Echappée	France	Lapierre
Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN)	Cycling Academy Ltd.	Israel	Factor
Lotto Soudal (LTS)	Belgian Cycling Project	Belgium	Ridley
Mitchelton-Scott (MTS)	GreenEdge Cycling	Australia	Scott Sports
Movistar Team (MOV)	Abarca Sports SL	Spain	Canyon bicycles
NTT Pro Cycling Team (NTT)	Ryder Cycling	South Africa	BMC
Team Jumbo-Visma (TJV)	Team Oranje Road BV	Netherlands	Bianchi
Team Ineos (INS)	Tour Racing Limited	United Kingdom	Pinarello
Team Sunweb (SUN)	SMS Cycling BV	Germany	Cervélo
Trek-Segafredo (TFS)	Trek Factory Racing	United States	Trek
UAE Team Emirates (UAD)	CGS Cycling Team AG	United Arab Emirates	Colnago

→ For the UCI ProTeams 2020, including the Total Direct Énergie team qualified for all WorldTour races and the Circus-Wanty Gobert team qualified for all WorldTour one-day races , see UCI ProSeries 2020 # Teams .

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 2020
• UCI Women's WorldTour 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Cancellation: Tour of California paused in 2020. In: CyclingMagazine. October 30, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ UCI reveals the calendars for the 2020 UCI WorldTour and UCI Women's WorldTour. In: uci.org. June 26, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} The UCI publishes the list of teams eligible for the award of 2020-2022 UCI WorldTour licenses and the UCI ProTeams qualified for 2020 UCI WorldTour events. In: uci.org. October 24, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} UCI: 19 teams meet sporting criteria for WorldTour licenses. In: radsport-news.com. October 24, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 . 
5. ^ New WorldTour races could suffer under revamped UCI rules. cycling-news.com, January 12, 2017, accessed January 14, 2017 . 
6. ^ The UCI Management Committee confirms its commitment to the new organization of track and road cycling, as well as to women's cycling. In: uci.org. September 26, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 . 
7. ↑ UCI postpones Classics Series until 2021. In: cyclingnews.com. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 . 
8. ↑ UAE tour canceled due to two positive tests for coronavirus. In: radsport-news.com. February 28, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Strade Bianche canceled. In: radsportnews.com. March 5, 2020, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
10. ^ Tirreno - Adriatico, Milan - Sanremo and Giro di Sicilia postponed. In: radsport-news.com. March 6, 2020, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
11. ^ Corona chaos near Paris-Nice. In: radsport-news.com. March 13, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 . 
12. ↑ De Panne, E3 BinckBank Classic and Gent-Wevelgem will not take place. In: radsport-news.com. March 12, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Tour of Catalonia has to postpone its 100th edition. In: radsport-news.com. March 12, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 . 
14. ↑ No Belgian races until April 3rd. In: radsport-news.com. March 13, 2020, accessed March 13, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Because of the corona virus: The death of the bike races. March 18, 2020, accessed April 3, 2020 . 
16. ↑ UCI presents new WorldTour calendars for men and women. In: radsport-news.com. May 5, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 . 
17. ↑ The UCI unveils the revised 2020 calendars for the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women's WorldTour. In: uci.org. May 5, 2020, accessed on May 5, 2020 . 
18. ↑ The UCI prepares for the resumption of the 2020 cycling season and confirms the transfer of its anti-doping activities to the ITA. In: uci.org. June 12, 2020, accessed June 12, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Tour of Guangxi canceled due to corona pandemic. In: radsport-news.com. August 10, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Points for the UCI world ranking list road cycling (men) . There is no longer any rating for the WorldTour.
21. ^ Israel Cycling Academy: With Greipel and Politt to the start-up nation. In: radsport-news.com. December 11, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
22. ^ Decision of the UCI License Commission regarding Mitchelton-Scott teams. In: uci.org. December 12, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 . 

Web links

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