| 2020 in road cycling |
|---|
 |
| List of men's road bicycle races |
| List of women's road bicycle races |
2020 in men's road cycling is about the 2020 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar. [1]
| 2020 in road cycling |
|---|
| |
| List of men's road bicycle races |
| List of women's road bicycle races |
2020 in men's road cycling is about the 2020 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar. [1]
The World Road Championships took place in Imola, Italy from 20 to 27 September 2020. The competition was set to be held in Aigle and Martigny, Switzerland, [2] but was moved due to the Covid-19 crisis. [3]
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual Time Trial | September 25 |  Filippo Ganna (ITA) |  Wout van Aert (BEL) |  Stefan Küng (SWI) | [4] |
| Road Race | September 27 |  Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) | Wout van Aert (BEL) | Marc Hirschi (SWI) | [5] |
| Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour de France | August 29 – September 20 |  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) | Primož Roglič (SLO) |  Richie Porte (AUS) | [6] |
| Giro d'Italia | October 3 – October 25 |  Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR) | Jai Hindley (AUS) |  Wilco Kelderman (NED) | [7] |
 Vuelta a España | October 20 – November 8 | Primož Roglič (SLO) |  Richard Carapaz (ECU) | Hugh Carthy (GBR) | [8] |
For the 2020 season, the UCI World Tour calendar contains the same events as in 2019, with the exception of the Tour of California which has been placed on hiatus and the Presidential Tour of Turkey, which was demoted to the newly introduced ProSeries.
| Tour | Individual champion | Team champion | Nations champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Tour | No nation ranking | ||
| Africa Tour | |||
| America Tour | |||
| Asia Tour | |||
| Europe Tour | |||
| Oceania Tour |
| Championships | Race | Date | Winner | Second | Third | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
African Championships  Mauritius | Cancelled | |||||
Pan American Championships  Argentina | Cancelled | |||||
Asian Championships  Malaysia | Cancelled | |||||
| European Championships France | Road race | August 24–28 | Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA) | Arnaud Démare (FRA) |  Pascal Ackermann (GER) | |
| Individual time trial | Stefan Küng (SUI) | Rémi Cavagna (FRA) | Victor Campenaerts (BEL) | |||
| Mixed team relay | Germany |  Switzerland | Italy | |||
Oceanian Championships  Tasmania | Cancelled | |||||
The UCI has granted a UCI WorldTour licence to the following nineteen teams: [17]
Małgorzata Jasińska is a Polish racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team Burgos Alimenta Women Cycling Sport.
CCC Pro Team was a UCI WorldTeam co-owned and managed by American cyclist Jim Ochowicz, who founded the 7-Eleven Cycling Team. After its last title sponsor, CCC, a Polish shoe retailer, pulled out due to financial difficulties resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Ochowicz was unable to find another major sponsor, so the team disbanded at the end of the 2020 season. In its place, Belgian UCI ProTeam Circus–Wanty Gobert took over the team's license and was promoted to a UCI WorldTeam.
Samuel Ryan Bewley is an amateur podcast host and former professional racing cyclist from New Zealand who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange–Jayco. He also competed for UCI ProTeam Team RadioShack and BikeNZ PureBlack Racing. He competed in nine Grand Tours, including five starts at the Vuelta a España and three starts at the Giro d'Italia. Bewley made his sole Tour de France appearance in the 2020 edition, before retiring from professional cycling at the end of 2022.
Annemiek van Vleuten is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Movistar Team.
Tiffany Jane Cromwell is an Australian road and gravel cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM.
Elisa Longo Borghini is an Italian professional road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella is a Brazilian racing cyclist. She competed in the 2013 UCI Women's World Championship Road Race in Florence, as well as the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Championships in Ponferrada. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro where she finished in seventh place, the highest placed finish for a Brazilian rider in any Olympic cycling event.
The 2012 women's road cycling season was the eighth year for AA Drink–leontien.nl, which began as Van Bemmelen–AA Drink in 2005.
Remco Evenepoel is a Belgian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.
The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the 103rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour. The start of the 2020 Giro had been planned to take place in Budapest, Hungary, which would have been the 14th time the Giro has started outside Italy, and the first time a Grand Tour has visited Hungary.
The 2020 UCI World Tour was a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season. However, some of races were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January, and concluded with the final stage of the Vuelta a España on 8 November.
The 2020 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that initially included twenty-one road cycling events throughout the 2020 women's cycling season. It was the fifth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race Women on 1 February. The schedule was extensively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in two-thirds of the races on the calendar being either postponed or cancelled outright. As a result, the season was extended until 8 November, when the final stage of the Ceratizit Challenge by la Vuelta took place.
2020 in women's road cycling is about the 2020 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2020 UCI Women's Teams.
The 2021 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included eighteen road cycling events throughout the 2021 women's cycling season. It was the sixth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with Strade Bianche on 6 March, and finished with the Ronde van Drenthe on 23 October.
The 2021 UCI World Tour was a series of races that included twenty-nine road cycling events throughout the 2021 cycling season. The tour started with the opening stage of the UAE Tour on 21 February, and concluded with Il Lombardia on 9 October.
2021 in men's road cycling includes the 2021 men's bicycle races governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar.
The 2022 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-three road cycling events throughout the 2022 women's cycling season. It was the seventh edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with Strade Bianche on 5 March, and finished with the final stage of the Tour de Romandie Féminin on 9 October.
2022 in men's road cycling includes the 2022 men's bicycle races governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The races are part of the UCI Road Calendar.
Julie De Wilde is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Team Fenix–Deceuninck in road cycling, and in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross team IKO–Crelan.
Lenny Martinez is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ. He is the son, grandson and nephew of former racing cyclists Miguel, Mariano and Yannick Martinez respectively.
