The 2022 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition that includes twenty-five

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events throughout the 2022 women's cycling season. It is the seventh edition of the

UCI Women's World Tour The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour. History In order to increase the coverage of Women's cycling the UCI held a summit in December 2014 between the UCI Women’s Working Group and the UCI Women's ...

, the ranking system launched by the

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(UCI) in 2016. The competition will begin with

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on 5 March, and finishes with the

Tour de Romandie Féminin The Tour de Romandie Féminin is a women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race in Switzerland, part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The race runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland - using roads in the Jura mou ...

on 9 October.

Events

The race calendar for the 2022 season was announced in June 2021, with twenty-four races initially scheduled – up from eighteen that were held in 2021. In September 2021, the

was added to make a total of twenty-five races. The two Chinese races were cancelled in June 2022, making a total of twenty three races.

Cancelled events

Due to

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-related logistical concerns raised by teams regarding travel to Australia (including strict quarantine requirements), the

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race also known as Great Ocean Road Race or Cadel Road Race is an annual professional one-day road bicycle racing for both men and women starting and finishing in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and routed along th ...

was cancelled. In June 2022, the planned Chinese races (

Tour of Chongming Island The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island. The Tour previously consisted of two races: a stage race and a one-day rac ...

and

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 UC ...

) were cancelled as the organisers did not wish to stage the events due to the

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References

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