Cycling’s world governing body the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has revealed details of its revised 2020 calendars for the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour.
The 2020 season has been suspended since March due to the Covid-19 pandemic and major events such as the Tour de France have been rescheduled.
In a news release the UCI has confirmed that the men’s cycling WorldTour will start with the Strade Bianche in Italy on 1 August and finish at the Vuelta a España on 8 November. The series will include 25 events.
The Tour de France is scheduled to take place from 29 August to 20 September while the two other grand tours – the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España – will overlap in October.
The Giro d’Italia is scheduled for 3-25 October while the Vuelta a España is scheduled for 20 October to 8 November.
UCI president David Lappartient said: “We have drawn up a solid, attractive and varied new calendar that is as realistic and coherent as possible. This has been achieved as early as was practicable and in line with information available today concerning the evolution of the pandemic. Riders, teams and organisers now have the dates they need to anticipate the resumption of racing on 1 August.
“This is a very important step that the entire cycling community, financially impacted by the pandemic, has been waiting for to move forward.”
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UCI WorldTour 2020 calendar
- 1 August: Strade Bianche (Italy)
- 5-9 August: Tour de Pologne (Poland)
- 8 August: Milano-Sanremo (Italy)
- 12-16 August: Critérium du Dauphiné (France)
- 16 August: Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic (Great Britain)
- 25 August: Bretagne Classic – Ouest-France (France)
- 29 August-20 September: Tour de France (France)
- 7-14 September: Tirreno-Adriatico (Italy)
- 11 September: Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec (Canada)
- 13 September: Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (Canada)
- 29 September-3 October: BinckBank Tour
- 30 September: La Flèche Wallonne (Belgium)
- 3-25 October: Giro d’Italia (Italy)
- 4 October: Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Belgium)
- 10 October: Amstel Gold Race (the Netherlands)
- 11 October: Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields (Belgium)
- 14 October: A Travers la Flandre (Belgium)
- 15-20 October: Gree – Tour of Guangxi (China)
- 18 October: Tour des Flandres (Belgium)
- 20 October-8 November: Vuelta Ciclista a España (Spain)
- 21 October: Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne (Belgium)
- 25 October: Paris-Roubaix (France)
- 31 October: Il Lombardia (Italy)
UCI Women’s WorldTour
The 2020 UCI Women’s WorldTour will feature 18 events and start on 1 August at the Strade Bianche in Italy. The women’s season will conclude on 8 November at the Ceratizit Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta in Spain.
Lappartient added: “We have established a 2020 UCI Women’s WorldTour calendar that is as coherent as possible, alternating one-day races and stage races, and maintaining the circuit’s major events, notably the Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile and the Classics.
“The new calendar will preserve the exceptional character of the 2020 season, marked by the professionalisation of women’s road cycling with the introduction of UCI Women’s WorldTeams and new major measures such as a minimum salary for cyclists in these teams, live TV coverage of all events in the series and the integration of a women’s version of Paris-Roubaix, at the initiative of the UCI in collaboration with ASO.”
UCI Women’s WorldTour 2020 calendar
- 1 August: Strade Bianche (Italy)
- 8 August: Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT (Sweden)
- 9 August: Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden RR (Sweden)
- 13-16 August: Ladies Tour of Norway (Norway)
- 26 August: GP de Plouay – Lorient Agglomération Trophée WNT (France)
- 29 August: La Course by Le Tour de France (France)
- 1-6 September: Boels Ladies Tour (the Netherlands)
- 11-19 September: Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile (Italy)
- 30 September: La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (Belgium)
- 4 October: Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes (Belgium)
- 10 October: Amstel Gold Race Ladies (the Netherlands)
- 11 October: Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields (Belgium)
- 18 October : Ronde van Vlaanderen (Belgium)
- 20 October: Tour of Guangxi Women’s WorldTour (China)
- 20 October: Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne (Belgium)
- 23-25 October: Tour of Chongming Island (China)
- 25 October: Paris-Roubaix (France)
- 6-8 November: Ceratizit Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (Spain)
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