The 2021 UCI Women's ProSeries was the second season of the second-tier

UCI Women's ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second tier women's elite road cycling tour. It was inaugurated in 2020. The series is placed below the UCI Women's World Tour, but above the various 1.1/2.1 and 1.2/2.2 races. , the tour consists of 14 races in Europe an ...

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tour, which sits below the

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but above the UCI Class 1 and Class 2 races. The 2021 season initially consisted of eight events, of which four were one-day races ( 1.Pro) and

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( 2.Pro). Of these eight events, the only non-European event was the season-opening

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stage race in

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. However, on 1 November 2020, it was cancelled due to the

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, leaving only the seven remaining European races. The most notable event on the calendar was the

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stage race. Though it is usually one of the most prestigious events in the women's calendar, it was demoted from the

after the 2020 season, with the move being attributed to race organizers failing to provide the minimum of 45 minutes of live television coverage required for all top-tier Women's WorldTour races.

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