2018 in road cycling |
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List of men's road bicycle races |
List of women's road bicycle races |
2018 in men's road cycling is about the 2018 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar. [1]
The World Road Championships were held in Innsbruck, Austria, from 22 to 30 September 2018. [2]
Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
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World Championship Team Time Trial | September 23 | Quick-Step Floors | Team Sunweb | BMC Racing Team | [3] |
World Championship Time Trial | September 26 | Rohan Dennis (AUS) | Tom Dumoulin (NED) | Victor Campenaerts (BEL) | [4] |
World Championship Road Race | September 30 | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) | Romain Bardet (FRA) | Michael Woods (CAN) | [5] |
Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
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Giro d'Italia | May 5–27 | Chris Froome (GBR) | Tom Dumoulin (NED) | Miguel Ángel López (COL) | [6] |
Tour de France | July 7–29 | Geraint Thomas (GBR) | Tom Dumoulin (NED) | Chris Froome (GBR) | [7] |
Vuelta a España | August 25 – September 16 | Simon Yates (GBR) | Enric Mas (ESP) | Miguel Ángel López (COL) | [8] |
For the 2018 season, the UCI World Tour calendar contains the same events as in 2017.
Tour | Individual champion | Team champion | Nations champion |
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UCI World Ranking | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) | No team ranking | Belgium |
World Tour | Simon Yates (GBR) | Quick-Step Floors | No nation ranking |
Africa Tour | Joseph Areruya (RWA) | Sovac–Natura4Ever | Eritrea |
America Tour | Gavin Mannion (USA) | UnitedHealthcare | Colombia |
Asia Tour | Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) | Kinan Cycling Team | Kazakhstan |
Europe Tour | Hugo Hofstetter (FRA) | Wanty–Groupe Gobert | Belgium |
Oceania Tour | Chris Harper (AUS) | Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team | Australia |
The UCI has granted a UCI WorldTour licence to the following eighteen teams: [99]
Thomas Leezer is a Dutch former road bicycle racer, who competed between 2004 and 2020, for the Van Vliet–EBH Advocaten, Rabobank Continental Team and Team Jumbo–Visma squads. He participated at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in the Men's team time trial for Belkin Pro Cycling. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia.
Ben Hermans is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.
Alena Vasileŭna Amialiusik is a Belarusian road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam UAE Team ADQ.
Moreno Hofland is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2021 for the Rabobank Continental Team, LottoNL–Jumbo, Lotto–Soudal and EF Education–Nippo teams.
Gregory Lawson Craddock is an American professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla. He is known for his achievement in finishing the 2018 Tour de France despite being seriously injured in the opening stage, and for raising funds for a hurricane-damaged velodrome as a result.
Vyacheslav Gennadyevich Kuznetsov is a Russian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2013 and 2021 for the Team Katusha–Alpecin and Gazprom–RusVelo teams.
Sergey Vitaliyevich Chernetskiy is a Russian cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Gazprom–RusVelo. In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España.
Niccolò Bonifazio is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Corratec–Vini Fantini.
Kristian Sbaragli is an Italian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Corratec–Vini Fantini. He rode in the 2014 Vuelta a España and was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.
Jean-Pierre "Jempy" Drucker is a retired Luxembourgish professional racing cyclist.
Joseph Rosskopf is an American cyclist from Decatur, Georgia, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team.
Łukasz Wiśniowski is a Polish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious.
Mads Pedersen is a Danish professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. He has won stages in all three Grand Tours — the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España. He won the men's road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire, England, becoming the first Danish cyclist to win the men's World Championship road race title.
Rémi Cavagna is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.
Neilson Powless is an American and Oneida Nation professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost. Powless is the first US Native American to compete in the Tour de France.
Sergio Andrés Higuita García is a Colombian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.
Robert Stannard is an Australian cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.
Clément Champoussin is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Arkéa–B&B Hotels. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España. On stage 20 of the 2021 Vuelta he won the final mountain stage finding himself among the GC contenders of Roglič, Haig and Mas. He finished the race 16th overall.
2019 in men's road cycling is about the 2019 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar.