2025 UCI Women's World Tour

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2025 UCI Women's World Tour
Tenth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour
Details
Dates17 January – 19 October 2025
Location
Races27
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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]

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Events

The initial 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] Other rumoured events such as promotion of the Thüringen Ladies Tour to the World Tour calendar did not occur. [9]

In January 2025, it was announced that the Tour of Scandinavia would not be revived, [10] reducing the calendar to twenty-seven races.

Races in the 2025 UCI Women's World Tour [1]
RaceDateFirstSecondThird
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Women's Tour Down Under 17–19 JanuaryFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Noemi Rüegg  (SUI)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Silke Smulders  (NED)Flag of Norway.svg  Mie Bjørndal Ottestad  (NOR)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 1 FebruaryFlag of New Zealand.svg  Ally Wollaston  (NZL)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Karlijn Swinkels  (NED)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Noemi Rüegg  (SUI)
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg UAE Tour Women 6–9 FebruaryFlag of Italy.svg  Elisa Longo Borghini  (ITA)Flag of Italy.svg  Silvia Persico  (ITA)Flag of Mauritius.svg  Kimberley Le Court  (MRI)
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 1 March
Flag of Italy.svg Strade Bianche Donne 8 March
Flag of Italy.svg Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 16 March
Flag of Italy.svg Milano–San Remo Donne 22 March
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Classic Brugge–De Panne 27 March
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Gent–Wevelgem 30 March
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Tour of Flanders 6 April
Flag of France.svg Paris–Roubaix Femmes 12 April
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Amstel Gold Race 20 April
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg La Flèche Wallonne Féminine 23 April
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes 27 April
Flag of Spain.svg La Vuelta Femenina 4–10 May
Flag of Spain.svg Itzulia Women 16–18 May
Flag of Spain.svg Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 22–25 May
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tour of Britain Women 5–8 June
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Tour de Suisse Women 12–15 June
Flag of Denmark.svg Copenhagen Sprint 21 June
Flag of Italy.svg Giro d'Italia Women 6–13 July
Flag of France.svg Tour de France Femmes 26 July – 3 August
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Tour de Romandie Féminin 15–17 August
Flag of France.svg Classic Lorient Agglomération 30 August
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Simac Ladies Tour 7–12 October
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tour of Chongming Island 14–16 October
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tour of Guangxi 19 October

2025 UCI Women's WorldTeams

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. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Weislo, Laura (4 October 2024). "UCI rolls out 2025 road calendar with Copenhagen Sprint added to men's and women's WorldTour". Cycling News. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Part 2 Road Races" (PDF). UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 29 December 2024. pp. 105–106. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  3. 1 2 "The UCI publishes the 2025 UCI Women's WorldTour and UCI WorldTour calendars". www.uci.org. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  4. ↑ Mickey, Abby (3 May 2024). "The Tour of Scandinavia will not take place in 2024". Escape Collective. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  5. ↑ Moultrie, James (14 June 2024). "'No consultation or prior warning' - RideLondon Classique 2025 forced to cancel as UCI changes race dates". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  6. ↑ Fotheringham, Alasdair (14 June 2024). "UCI defends decision over changed dates for cancelled RideLondon Classique". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  7. ↑ "Nederland raakt WorldTour-wielerkoers kwijt: Ronde van Drenthe (v) verdwijnt" [The Netherlands loses WorldTour cycling race: Ronde van Drenthe (w) disappears]. Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (in Dutch). 12 July 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  8. ↑ "A Women's Version of Milan-San Remo Is Planned. Sadly, It Will Be Much Shorter Than the Men's Race". Bicycling. 21 March 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  9. ↑ Frattini, Kirsten (26 April 2023). "Thüringen Ladies Tour bids for a place on the Women's WorldTour in 2024". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  10. ↑ Thewlis, Tom (23 January 2025). "Women's WorldTour calendar suffers blow as important stage race axed". Cycling Weekly . Future plc . Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "Registration of UCI professional teams for the 2025 season". www.uci.org. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
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