It is no shock that Tour de France and Giro d’Italia champion Tadej Pogačar and his staff UAE Workforce Emirates sit atop the UCI World Rankings following the Slovenian’s triumph in Good on Sunday.
Pogačar has been the world’s primary rider since 2021, with outcomes corresponding to two Grand Tour victories, six stage wins in every the Giro and the Tour, and victories in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Strade Bianche and Il Lombardia padding out his present 12-month rolling tally of factors.
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) surged into second within the particular person rankings, climbing forward of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). Together with third place within the Tour de France, Evenepoel received stage 7 and three phases of final 12 months’s Vuelta a España and the UCI Street World Championships time trial to earn his spot atop the rankings.
Vingegaard lies third forward of Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel (each Alpecin-Deceuninck) after ending second within the Tour de France and successful one stage.
Primož Roglič (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) deserted the Tour after two crashes however stays within the high 10 due to his general win on the Critérium du Dauphiné. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Aleksandr Vlasov (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Marc Hirschi (UAE Workforce Emirates) and Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) spherical out the highest 10.
2024 Particular person Rankings
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Rank
Rider
Factors
1
Tadej Pogačar
10928
2
Remco Evenepoel
5904.57
3
Jonas Vingegaard
4770.5
4
Jasper Philipsen
4450
5
Mathieu van der Poel
4325
6
Roglič Primož
3733.36
7
Mads Pedersen
3633
8
Aleksandr Vlasov
3382.55
9
Marc Hirschi
3206
10
Wout van Aert
3120
Workforce Rankings
UAE Workforce Emirates additionally sit atop the 2024 Workforce Rankings by a whopping 13,438 factors forward of Visma-Lease a Bike and Ineos Grenadiers.
Soudal-Quickstep, beforehand second on the finish of the 2020-2022 rankings, are lagging behind as they refocus on constructing a Grand Tour squad for Evenepoel and dropping a lot of their Classics dominance. They’re sixth this 12 months after the Tour de France, up from eighth and fourth within the 2023-2024 standings.
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Lidl-Trek have made nice strides since ending ninth within the final spherical of promotion/relegation. They’re fourth this 12 months and fifth-best over two seasons.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale have been a significant success story, too. The French staff had been 18th final season however rallied this 12 months to fifth, bringing them to eleventh within the two-year standings.
The larger battle, nonetheless, is going on on the different finish of the rankings on the dreaded ‘relegation zone’.
The following spherical of promotion/relegation for the UCI WorldTour will come on the finish of the 2025 season.
Each three years, the groups should meet the sporting standards of being within the high 18 of the three-year UCI Workforce Rankings, together with all the opposite monetary, administrative and moral standards to get a WorldTour license.
Lotto Dstny and Israel-Premier Tech, who misplaced their WorldTour standing on the finish of 2022 due to this rule, are at present ninth and tenth, respectively, for the 2024 season and ninth and thirteenth within the mixed factors tally for 2023 and 2024.
The peloton are at present midway by means of the battle for factors towards the 2023-2025 rankings and to this point, Astana Qazaqstan and Arkéa-B&B Resorts are in essentially the most hazard of relegation.
Astana are a distant twenty first in each this 12 months’s and the two-year rankings, nicely under the highest 18 wanted to stay within the sport’s high tier. The staff from Kazakhstan are 3,364 factors behind DSM-Firmenich-PostNL who’re 18th within the 2023-2024 standings. Mark Cavendish’s historic record-setting Tour de France stage win was price simply 210 factors, for reference.
Uno-X, who want to transfer into the WorldTour, nonetheless have work to do towards that purpose. They’re 18th this 12 months, an enormous enchancment on final 12 months’s twenty first place. However, mixed, their whole brings them solely to twentieth, under the promotion line.
There may be nonetheless loads of time for groups to scramble to maneuver up, however some groups are flirting with relegation, being persistently on the cusp of falling under 18th place.
Arkéa-B&B Resorts had been the 18th staff to make the WorldTour in 2022 however dropped to nineteenth in 2023 and have not made up any floor for the two-year rankings. They’re 1,554 factors behind 18th place, held by Workforce DSM-Firmenich-PostNL.
Workforce DSM had been sixteenth within the 2020-2022 rankings and dropped to Seventeenth in 2023. Thus far this season, they’re nineteenth, and mixed, they’re in 18th place however are 595 factors shy of shifting forward of Seventeenth-placed Cofidis and nonetheless with a cushty benefit on Arkéa.
Cofidis, in the meantime, have a buffer of two,061 factors over Arkéa and lie in Seventeenth over the previous two years.
