2020 UCI World Tour

The 2020 UCI World Tour is a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season.[1] However, some of races were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January,[1] and is scheduled to conclude with the final stage of the Vuelta a España on 8 November.[3][4]

For the Women's 2020 UCI World Tour, see 2020 UCI Women's World Tour.

2020 UCI WorldTour
Details
Dates21 January – 8 November
Location
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • Middle East
Rounds23

Events

The 2020 calendar was initially announced in June 2019.[1] In October 2019, the calendar was officially presented by the UCI.

There were two races fewer in the original schedule than in the 2019 UCI World Tour:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that commenced in the spring, numerous races were postponed, including all three Grand Tours and four of the five annual 'monuments'. As a result, race organisers requested new date allocations with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for many of these events. On 5 May 2020, a revised calendar was announced by the UCI, with 25 races to be held between 1 August and 8 November; several races were scheduled to overlap, including the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.[7] Of the 25, Eschborn–Frankfurt and the EuroEyes Cyclassics had dates still to be confirmed at the time of the calendar's publication.[8] Further amendments were made to the calendar in June, with two more races being cancelled, several others moving dates and the EuroEyes Cyclassics was scheduled for October.[3]

Races in the 2020 UCI World Tour[1][3][8]
Race Date Winner Second Third
Tour Down Under 21–26 January  Richie Porte (AUS)  Diego Ulissi (ITA)  Simon Geschke (GER)
Great Ocean Road Race 2 February  Dries Devenyns (BEL)  Pavel Sivakov (RUS)  Daryl Impey (RSA)
UAE Tour 23–27 February[lower-alpha 1]  Adam Yates (GBR)  Tadej Pogačar (SLO)  Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ)
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 29 February  Jasper Stuyven (BEL)  Yves Lampaert (BEL)  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN)
Paris–Nice 8–14 March[lower-alpha 2]  Maximilian Schachmann (GER)  Tiesj Benoot (BEL)  Sergio Higuita (COL)
Strade Bianche 1 August[lower-alpha 3]  Wout van Aert (BEL)  Davide Formolo (ITA)  Maximilian Schachmann (GER)
Tour de Pologne 5–9 August[lower-alpha 4]  Remco Evenepoel (BEL)  Jakob Fuglsang (DEN)  Simon Yates (GBR)
Milan–San Remo 8 August[lower-alpha 5]  Wout van Aert (BEL)  Julian Alaphilippe (FRA)  Michael Matthews (AUS)
Critérium du Dauphiné 12–16 August[lower-alpha 6]
Il Lombardia 15 August[lower-alpha 7]  Jakob Fuglsang (DEN)  George Bennett (NZL)  Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS)
Bretagne Classic Ouest–France 25 August[lower-alpha 8]
Tour de France 29 August – 20 September[lower-alpha 9]
Tirreno–Adriatico 7–14 September[lower-alpha 10]
BinckBank Tour 29 September – 3 October[lower-alpha 11]
La Flèche Wallonne 30 September[lower-alpha 12]
Giro d'Italia 3–25 October[lower-alpha 13]
Liège–Bastogne–Liège 4 October[lower-alpha 12]
Amstel Gold Race 10 October[lower-alpha 14]
Gent–Wevelgem 11 October[lower-alpha 15]
Tour of Flanders 18 October[lower-alpha 15]
Vuelta a España 20 October – 8 November[lower-alpha 16]
Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 21 October[lower-alpha 17]
Paris–Roubaix 25 October[lower-alpha 18]

Cancelled events

A total of thirteen events were not able to be rescheduled, or were definitively cancelled during the 2020 season; the centennial Volta a Catalunya (23–29 March),[13] the Tour of the Basque Country (6–11 April),[14] the Tour de Romandie (28 April to 3 May),[15] the Tour de Suisse (7–14 June),[16] and the Clásica de San Sebastián (25 July) were all cancelled prior to any updated calendars being released by the UCI.[14] Following the May calendar update, the E3 BinckBank Classic (27 March),[8] and the RideLondon–Surrey Classic (16 August) were both cancelled;[17] in the June calendar update, Eschborn–Frankfurt (initially scheduled for 1 May), and Dwars door Vlaanderen (having been rescheduled for 14 October) were also cancelled.[3] In July, the EuroEyes Cyclassics (initially scheduled for 16 August, and then rescheduled to 3 October),[18] and the two Canadian races in Québec City and Montréal (scheduled for 11 and 13 September) were cancelled.[19] In August, the season-ending Tour of Guangxi (initially scheduled for 15–20 October, and then rescheduled to 5–10 November) was cancelled.[4]

Notes
  1. The UAE Tour was scheduled to run until 29 February, but was abandoned following stage five after two support staff tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019.[9]
  2. Paris–Nice was scheduled to run until 15 March, but the final stage was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[10]
  3. Strade Bianche was scheduled for 7 March, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
  4. The Tour de Pologne was initially scheduled to run from 5–11 July.
  5. Milan–San Remo was scheduled for 21 March, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
  6. The Critérium du Dauphiné was scheduled to run from 31 May to 7 June, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
  7. Il Lombardia was initially scheduled for 10 October. The race was first rescheduled for 31 October with the May calendar update, and subsequently to 15 August with the June calendar update.
  8. The Bretagne Classic Ouest–France was initially scheduled for 23 August, but was moved after that date was designated for national road cycling championships events.
  9. The Tour de France was scheduled to run from 27 June to 19 July, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[11]
  10. Tirreno–Adriatico was scheduled to run from 11–17 March, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
  11. The BinckBank Tour was initially scheduled to run from 31 August to 6 September.
  12. La Flèche Wallonne (22 April) and Liège–Bastogne–Liège (26 April) were rescheduled four days apart, after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium.
  13. The Giro d'Italia was scheduled to run from 9–31 May, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
  14. The Amstel Gold Race was scheduled for 19 April, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.
  15. Gent–Wevelgem (29 March), Dwars door Vlaanderen (1 April) and the Tour of Flanders (5 April) initially kept their race days upon rescheduling to October, after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. Dwars door Vlaanderen was ultimately cancelled in June.
  16. The Vuelta a España was initially scheduled to run from 14 August to 6 September. The race's opening three stages, due to be held in the Netherlands, were cancelled; reducing the race to 18 stages.[12]
  17. The Three Days of Bruges–De Panne was scheduled for 25 March, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium.
  18. Paris–Roubaix was scheduled for 12 April, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

References
  1. "UCI reveals the calendars for the 2020 UCI WorldTour and UCI Women's WorldTour". UCI. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. "Calendrier International UCI / UCI International Calendar – Route / Road – Situation dans le contexte actuel de la pandémie du coronavirus (Covid-19) / Situation in the current context of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic" (PDF). UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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  4. "Tour of Guangxi cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. "Tour de France a week earlier in 2020, Turkey out of WorldTour". 26 June 2019.
  6. "Amgen Tour of California placed on hiatus for 2020". Los Angeles Times. 30 October 2019.
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  8. "The UCI unveils the revised 2020 calendars for the UCI WorldTour & UCI Women's WorldTour". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  9. "2020 UAE Tour's remaining rounds cancelled after two coronavirus cases confirmed". WAM.ae. Emirates News Agency. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  10. "Coronavirus: Paris-Nice race to finish on Saturday". BBC Sport. BBC. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  11. "Tour de France to go ahead at end of August after coronavirus delay". BBC Sport. BBC. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  12. "La Vuelta 20 will consist of 18 stages and will take off from the Basque Country". Vuelta a España. Unipublic. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  13. Fletcher, Patrick (27 April 2020). "No room for Volta a Catalunya in revised 2020 calendar". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  14. "Clásica San Sebastián, Tour of Basque Country cancelled for 2020". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  15. Farrand, Stephen (16 March 2020). "Coronavirus: Race cancellations expand into late April and May". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  16. "Coronavirus: 2020 Tour de Suisse cancelled". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  17. Ballinger, Alex (20 May 2020). "RideLondon 2020 has been cancelled". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  18. "Cyclassics Hamburg cancelled due to coronavirus". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  19. Ryan, Barry (23 July 2020). "Québec and Montréal GPs cancelled due to coronavirus". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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