The 2024 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition that includes twenty-seven
road cycling
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events throughout the
2024 women's cycling season. It will be the ninth edition of the
UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the
Union Cycliste Internationale
The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.
The UCI issues racing ...
(UCI) in 2016. The competition begins with the
Women's Tour Down Under
The Women's Tour Down Under (known for sponsorship reasons as the Santos Women's Tour Down Under) is an annual professional road bicycle racing for women in Australia. It is held in conjunction with the Tour Down Under.
From 2016, it was rate ...
from 12 to 14 January, and finishes with the
Tour of Guangxi
The Tour of Guangxi (officially known as the GREE-Tour of Guangxi for sponsorship purposes) is an annual professional cycling stage race held in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The race consists of multi-stage and is part of the UCI ...
on 20 October.
Events
The race calendar for the 2024 season was announced in June 2023, with twenty eight races initially scheduled.
The calendar is largely similar to 2023, with the dates of races moved to accommodate the
2024 Summer Olympics
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and
2024 Summer Paralympics
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.
Rumoured events such as women's editions of the
Giro di Lombardia or
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...
, or promotion of the
Thüringen Ladies Tour
The Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour, formerly known as the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (Women's Tour of Thuringia) is a stage race for women road cycle racers held every July in the German state of Thuringia. It is rated a class 2.1 event by ...
to the World Tour calendar did not occur.
In January 2024, SweetSpot – the organiser and promoter of The Women's Tour – entered liquidation and the race was initially removed from the 2024 calendar. The following month,
British Cycling took over the running of the race, which was to be renamed as the
Tour of Britain Women, and the race returned to the calendar but over a shorter four-day itinerary.
In May 2024, the
Tour of Scandinavia was cancelled due to a lack of funding.
2024 UCI Women's WorldTeams
The fifteen Women's WorldTeams were automatically invited to compete in events, with the two best 2023 UCI
Women's Continental Teams ( and ) also invited automatically. Other Continental women's teams were invited by the organisers of each race.
References
External links
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