The outcomes that Tadej Pogačar achieved in 2024, with victories within the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and World Championships, have been to date and above all others within the professional peloton that the Slovenian earned nearly twice the variety of UCI factors as his nearest rival, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep), the October 14 rankings confirmed.
The UCI World Rankings for people are calculated on a rolling 12-month window. Because the season attracts to a detailed this week, Pogačar ends his one hundred and sixtieth week because the world’s #1 rider, racking up 11,655 factors in comparison with Evenepoel’s 6,073 factors.
Pogačar scored 1,300 for his Tour de France total win, 1,100 for the Giro d’Italia GC, 900 for profitable the world title, 210 for every of his six Tour phases and 180 for every of his Giro phases.
He additionally scored 800 factors every for profitable Il Lombardia and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, 520 for his third place in Milan-San Remo, 500 for profitable the GP de Montréal and 400 for profitable Strade Bianche, plus a slew of different factors for minor placings and classifications.
Pogačar’s large tally of factors is partly as a result of UCI’s 2023 revamp of the factors construction, which awarded comparatively fewer factors for one-day races and positioned extra emphasis on the Grand Excursions, however it’s greater than double the perfect whole for a yr earlier than the brand new guidelines – set by Pogačar in 2021 when he scored 5,363 factors.
Evenepoel additionally had an distinctive season, with two Olympic gold medals, his world title within the time trial, and his podiums within the Tour de France, Paris-Good and Il Lombardia, amongst different outcomes contributing to his tally.
Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) completed his season in third place within the particular person rankings with 4,790 factors.
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2024 Workforce Rankings
Pogačar’s group has but to shut out the season, fielding riders on the final three races of the season within the Tour of Guangxi, Giro del Veneto and Veneto Basic. There is no such thing as a likelihood of the group ceding the number one slot within the group rankings, nonetheless, as they’ve a lead of greater than 16,000 factors over Visma-Lease a Bike. Soudal-Quickstep climbed to 3rd, getting forward of Lidl-Trek.
UAE Workforce Emirates set a report, based on the group, of 76 wins by 20 completely different riders for the 2024 season – essentially the most since 2000 when Mapei-Quickstep received 72 races with 23 completely different riders.
The 2024 Workforce Rankings decide which ProTeams will earn computerized invites to the WorldTour occasions. Lotto Dstny and Israel-Premier Tech have a lock on the highest two locations for ProTeams which can earn them computerized wildcard invites to the entire WorldTour races in 2025.
Uno-X Mobility, because the third-best ProTeam, are set to earn computerized invites to the WorldTour one-day occasions in 2025.
WorldTour Relegation rankings
With the 2024 season drawing to a detailed, the WorldTour futures of Astana Qazaqstan and Arkéa-B&B Inns are nonetheless bleak. The UCI guidelines for the WorldTour embody ‘sporting standards’ the place each three years, groups should be within the prime 18 of the mixed three-year rankings to qualify for a WorldTour licence. The present interval ends on the finish of the 2025 season.
Two years in, Astana are twenty first within the three-year rankings and Arkéa-B&B Inns is nineteenth. Each groups are lagging effectively behind Cofidis, who’re in 18th – Arkéa path by 2,366 factors whereas Astana are a way more distant 4,782 factors down.
Astana have fallen a good distance because the final three-year cycle. They have been seventh and eighth in 2020 and 2021, respectively, however then dropped to thirteenth on the finish of the 2020-2022 interval. With the retirement of Vincenzo Nibali and the lack of sponsor Premier Tech after 2021, the group confronted a serious rebuilding interval.
They have been on the backside of the rankings for WorldTeams for the previous two years and, whereas they’ve signed a couple of key riders in Sergio Higuita, Diego Ulissi and Wout Poels, they face a large uphill battle to stay within the WorldTour.
Arkéa-B&B Inns, as compared, have been steadily within the relegation zone, simply barely sneaking into the WorldTour because of an ingenious technique of eschewing WorldTour races to achieve factors at smaller occasions. The change within the UCI factors construction hasn’t benefited the French group, nonetheless, and so they have lagged in nineteenth ever since.
There may be nonetheless an opportunity that Cofidis might proceed their downward trajectory and drop beneath Arkéa – they have been in severe hazard of being demoted in 2021 however circled their performances in 2022 to salvage their place within the WorldTour. Since then, they’ve dropped from fifteenth to 18th within the cumulative rankings and have misplaced floor to Workforce DSM-Firmenich-Postnl.
Lotto Dstny, now in ninth, and Israel-Premier Tech in 14th within the three-year rankings seem sure to return to the WorldTour in 2026 after being relegated in 2022. Uno-X Mobility do not seem to have sufficient momentum to overhaul any of the groups within the prime 18 and their WorldTour ambitions might have to attend till 2029.
