The 2024 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-seven

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events throughout the 2024 women's cycling season. It was be the ninth edition of the

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, the ranking system launched by the

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(UCI) in 2016. The competition began with the

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from 12 to 14 January, and finished with the

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on 20 October. Belgian rider

Lotte Kopecky Lotte Kopecky (; born 10 November 1995) is a Belgian road and track Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam , and the UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, 2023 and 2024 UCI Elite Women's W ...

() won the individual classification with 4596 points, after a close battle with her teammate

Demi Vollering Adriana Geertruida "Demi" Vollering (; born 15 November 1996) is a Dutch professional bicycle racing, racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez. Considered one of the greatest riders of her generation, sh ...

throughout the season. Kopecky had six overall victories, including

Strade Bianche Donne The Strade Bianche Donne ''(Strade Bianche Women)'', also named Strade Bianche Rosa by Italian media, is an annual professional list of women's road bicycle races, women's road bicycle racing event in Tuscany, Italy. Roughly a quarter of the rou ...

and

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. Second place went to Dutch rider Demi Vollering () with 4175 points. Vollering won four events, including

La Vuelta Femenina La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by Unipublic and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuel ...

. Third place was taken by Italian rider

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() with 3327 points, with Longo Borghini winning two events –

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and

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. For the fourth year in a row, the teams classification was won by – making it their eighth win in nine seasons. Thirteen different riders won races, with six riders holding the individual classification lead during the season. For the third year running, the youth classification was won by Dutch rider

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( Lidl–Trek), who finished 11th in the individual classification.

Events

2024 Fleche Wallonne - podium Lotte Kopecky2

The race calendar for the 2024 season was announced in June 2023, with twenty eight races initially scheduled. The calendar was largely similar to 2023, with the dates of races moved to accommodate the

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and

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. Rumoured events such as women's editions of the

Giro di Lombardia The Giro di Lombardia (), officially ''Il Lombardia'', is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five 'Cycling monument, Monuments' of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in cycli ...

Milan–San Remo Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...

, 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) was a stage race for women road bicycle racing, road cycle racers held every July in the German states of Germany, state of Thurin ...

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,

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took over the running of the race, which was to be renamed as the

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, 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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