Tenth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour | |
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Dates | 17 January – 19 October 2025 |
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Races | 27 |
The 2025 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition with twenty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2025 women's cycling season. The competition began with the Women's Tour Down Under from 17 to 19 January, and will finish with the Tour of Guangxi on 19 October. [1] It is the tenth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour – launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016 – but for the first time is not a ranking competition in its own right, with the rankings having been removed from the UCI's Road Race regulations. [2]
The race calendar for the 2025 season was announced in June 2024, with twenty-nine races initially scheduled. [3] The calendar was similar to 2024, with the scheduled return of the Tour of Scandinavia following a hiatus in 2024 due to a lack of funding. [3] [4]
Following the announcement, the RideLondon Classique was cancelled by organisers, as it was not possible to run the race on the June date offered by the UCI. [5] [6] In July 2024, the Ronde van Drenthe was removed from the calendar as a result of economic reasons. [7] In October 2024, the final calendar was announced with the addition of two new events [1] – the previously rumoured women's edition of Milan–San Remo, [8] and a new one-day race in Denmark, the Copenhagen Sprint. [1] In January 2025, it was announced that the Tour of Scandinavia would not be revived, [9] reducing the calendar to twenty-seven races.
The fifteen Women's WorldTeams were automatically invited to compete in events, with the top two UCI Women's ProTeams listed on the 2024 UCI World Ranking (EF Education–Oatly and VolkerWessels Women Cyclingteam) also invited automatically. Other Continental women's teams were invited by the organisers of each race. [10]
Giorgia Bronzini is an Italian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2017. She won the women's road race in the UCI Road World Championships in both 2010 and 2011 and the women's points race in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2009.
Ronde van Drenthe was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. The women's event was part of the UCI Women's World Tour, and the men's event was part of the UCI Europe Tour.
Kirsten Carlijn Wild is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2021, for eight professional teams. During her track cycling career, Wild rode at the Summer Olympic Games in 2012, 2016 and 2020, winning a bronze medal at the latter Games, in the omnium. She won eighteen medals including nine golds at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and eighteen medals including eight golds at the UEC European Track Championships. Wild also took over 100 victories in road racing, and won two medals at the UCI Road World Championships.
Chloe Hosking is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She holds the record for the most professional wins for an Australian woman with 39 professional wins in her career. Hosking has represented Australia at junior and then senior levels since 2007. Following success in a number of international events she turned professional in 2010. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, and won the women's road race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Lucinda Brand is a Dutch racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek in road racing, and UCI Cyclo-cross Pro Team Baloise–Trek Lions in cyclo-cross. After four years with Rabo–Liv, in August 2016 Team Sunweb announced that Brand had signed a two-year deal with the team, with a role as a team leader, road captain and as part of the team's sprint train. In 2023, Brand collaborated with fellow professional cyclist Maghalie Rochette to create the cycling-focused podcast Dirty Talks.
Romy Kasper is a German racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Human Powered Health. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. She competed for Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's road race where she finished in 44th place.
Nina Kessler is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Oatly. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. At the 2015 Dutch National Track Championships she became Dutch champion in the women's Madison together with Kirsten Wild. She won the points classification at the 2016 La Course by Le Tour de France.
Barbara Guarischi is an Italian racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. In November 2015 she was announced as part of the Canyon–SRAM team's inaugural squad for the 2016 season.
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime. In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway.
Edward Theuns is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Elisa Balsamo is an Italian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Team Lidl–Trek, and represents Italy at international competitions.
RideLondon Classique is a women's cycle stage race held in Essex and London as part of the UCI Women's World Tour. Part of the RideLondon cycling festival, the race was originally held as a one-day race in central London, and became a stage race in 2022 following the demise of the London–Surrey Classic.
Chiara Consonni is an Italian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Team Canyon–SRAM zondacrypto. She rode for Valcar–PBM in the women's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.
Lorena Wiebes is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime. She rode for Parkhotel Valkenburg in the women's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. She won the gold medal in road cycling at the 2019 European Games, beating her compatriot Marianne Vos in the sprint for the line. In May 2022, Wiebes won all three stages of the RideLondon Classique. In July 2022, she won the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
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.
Clara Copponi is a French professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. She was the 2024 European scratch race champion. She rode in the women's team pursuit event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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 2023 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2023 women's cycling season. It was the eighth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with the Women's Tour Down Under from 15 to 17 January, and finished with the Tour of Guangxi on 17 October.
The 2024 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2024 women's cycling season. It was 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 began with the Women's Tour Down Under from 12 to 14 January, and finished with the Tour of Guangxi on 20 October.