2017_UCI_World_Tour

2017 UCI World Tour

2017 UCI World Tour

Cycling races

For the Women's 2017 UCI World Tour, see 2017 UCI Women's World Tour.

The 2017 UCI World Tour was a competition that included thirty-seven road cycling events throughout the 2017 men's cycling season.[1] It was the ninth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2009. The competition started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 17 January and concluded with the final stage of the Tour of Guangxi on 24 October.[2] Slovakia's Peter Sagan was the defending champion.[3] The 2017 edition featured ten new events.[2]

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Sagan was unable to defend his World Tour title, winning just one race overall at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec in September,[4] as he finished fourth in the points rankings; he finished one point behind third-placed Tom Dumoulin. The rankings were topped for the first time by Belgian rider Greg Van Avermaet,[5] riding for the BMC Racing Team, who amassed 3,582 points with the newly-enlarged points-scoring system over the course of the season. Van Avermaet led the standings for the majority of the season, winning four races overall; three on home soil at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad,[6] E3 Harelbeke,[7] and Gent–Wevelgem,[8] with a single win in France at Paris–Roubaix.[9] Van Avermaet finished 130 points clear of Great Britain's Chris Froome, riding for Team Sky. Froome won two of the three Grand Tours to be held in 2017, winning his fourth Tour de France,[10] before taking a first Vuelta a España success, the first Tour–Vuelta double in 39 years.[11] The success gave him the World Tour points lead for several hours before Van Avermaet surpassed him with a seventh-place finish at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal.

In the concurrent teams' standings, Team Sky prevailed with 12,806 points,[12] as Froome's victories were added to by Michał Kwiatkowski (Strade Bianche, Milan–San Remo and Clásica de San Sebastián), Sergio Henao (Paris–Nice) and Elia Viviani (EuroEyes Cyclassics and Bretagne Classic Ouest–France). 154 points behind in second place were Quick-Step Floors,[12] who took 30 victories on World Tour races (including 16 Grand Tour stages) during the 2017 season, with overall victories for Yves Lampaert (Dwars door Vlaanderen) and Philippe Gilbert (Tour of Flanders and Amstel Gold Race). With 10,961 points,[12] BMC Racing Team finished in third place primarily down to Van Avermaet's performances, with further wins to Richie Porte (Tour Down Under and Tour de Romandie) and Dylan Teuns at the Tour de Pologne.

Teams

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Events

All events from the 2016 UCI World Tour were included, although some events were scheduled on different dates than previous editions. Ten new events were also added to the calendar.[2][14] An eleventh event, the Tour of Qatar, was originally added to the calendar in October 2016, but it was cancelled in December 2016 due to lack of sponsorship support.[15][16] Another new-for-2017 World Tour event, the Presidential Tour of Turkey, was postponed from its initial dates of 18–23 April, in February.[17] In March, following a meeting of the UCI Professional Cycling Council, the race was rescheduled for 10–15 October.[18]

A new points ranking was also introduced for the 2017 season, based upon the points scales for the UCI World Ranking. Therefore, up to 60 riders – up from a maximum of 20 riders at the Grand Tours – would be able to score points in all races.[19][20] As well as the new points rankings, the previous ranking by nations was also removed.[20]

Just as in 2016, the team time trial at the UCI World Championships, scheduled to be held on 17 September, had been due to award points towards the team rankings. In August 2017, the Association International des Groupes Cyclistes Professionels (AIGCP) agreed a deal with the UCI to avoid a boycott of the race, but no points would be awarded towards the World Tour rankings.[21]

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Final points standings

See also: UCI World Ranking

Individual

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Riders tied with the same number of points were classified by number of victories, then number of second places, third places, and so on, in World Tour events and stages.

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  • 436 riders scored points. 200 other riders finished in positions that would have earned them points, but they were ineligible as members of non-UCI WorldTeams.

Team

Team rankings were calculated by adding the ranking points of all the riders of a team in the table.[23]

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Leader progress

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Notes

  1. As Meyer rode for the Australian national team, which is not a UCI WorldTeam, he was ineligible to score points towards the UCI World Tour standings.
  2. As Masnada was riding for Androni–Sidermec–Bottecchia, which is not a UCI WorldTeam, he was ineligible to score points towards the UCI World Tour standings.
  3. Listed on 810 by the UCI; missing leader points at the Vuelta a España.
  4. Listed on 755 by the UCI; attributed leader points at the Vuelta a España when not the leader.
  5. Listed on 217 by the UCI; attributed leader points at the Volta a Catalunya when not the leader.
  6. Listed on 185 by the UCI; missing leader points at the Volta a Catalunya.
  7. Talansky's points are not attributed to any team according to the UCI.

References

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    Wynn, Nigel (25 February 2017). "Greg Van Avermaet pips Peter Sagan to Omloop Het Nieuwsblad victory". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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    "Van Avermaet wins E3 Harelbeke". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 24 March 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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    "Greg Van Avermaet wins Gent-Wevelgem". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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    "Van Avermaet wins Paris-Roubaix". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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    Fletcher, Paul (23 July 2017). "Tour de France 2017: Chris Froome wins yellow jersey for the fourth time". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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    Fotheringham, William (10 September 2017). "Chris Froome seals Vuelta a España title to win historic Vuelta-Tour double". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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    Fletcher, Patrick (24 October 2017). "Van Avermaet and Van der Breggen crowned 2017 WorldTour champions". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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    "WorldTour team bike guide - Cyclingnews.com". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
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    "Tour of Guangxi added to 2017 WorldTour calendar - Cyclingnews.com". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
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    "UCI statement on Tour of Qatar". UCI. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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    "Tour of Qatar and Ladies Tour of Qatar cancelled". Cycling News. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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    "UCI statement on the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey". UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
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    "New dates announced for the 2017 Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey". UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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    "A single points scale for calculating the UCI World Ranking and UCI WorldTour rankings from 2017". UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 22 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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    "Amendments to regulations as from 01.01.2017" (PDF). UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 22 December 2016. pp. 19–25. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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    Brown, Gregor (18 August 2017). "UCI strikes deal with teams to prevent boycott of World Championship team time trial". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
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    "WorldTour Ranking – 2017: Individual Ranking (24/10/2017)". UCI World Tour. Infostrada Sports; Union Cycliste Internationale. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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    "WorldTour Ranking – 2017: Team Ranking (24/10/2017)". UCI World Tour. Infostrada Sports; Union Cycliste Internationale. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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