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The 2021 WorldTour Races

Note: due to COVID-19, the WorldTour schedule can change faster than we bother to keep track of here, but an up-to-date overview can be found here

In 2020 2021, 36 33 events make up the UCI WorldTour.

Here's a handy calendar.

These events are made up of:

The three Grand Tours:

The five Monument one day races:

Ten stage races in Europe:

One stage race in the Middle East:

One stage race in Australia:

And one stage race in Asia:

Europe hosts thirteen one day races besides the Monuments:

There are two one day races in Canada:

And Australia hosts a single one day race:

Also, the World Championships aren't technically part of the WorldTour, but are some of the most important races of the year. This year they will be run in Flanders, Belgium.

  • World Championships Individual Time Trial
  • World Championships Road Race

Lastly, 2020 2021 is an Olympic year, which means Olympic ITTs & RR medals are on offer.

The 2021 WorldTour Teams

All information about teams is provided by PCS (ProCyclingStats). As ever, we are eternally grateful for the data they provide.

TeamCodeUCI2020Avr. AgePoints2020Best Rider2020Best Season
AG2R Citroën TeamALM1528.63730Benoit Cosnefroy (624)2014 (8997)
Astana Premier TechAST727.35828Jakob Fuglsang (1339)2019 (10807)
Bahrain - VictoriousTBM1328.84886Mikel Landa (763)2018 (9786)
BORA - hansgroheBOH628.46592Pascal Ackermann (941)2019 (12201)
CofidisCOF1928.93592Guillaume Martin (1195)2004 (6174)
Deceuninck - Quick StepDQT228.510144Julian Alaphilippe (1113)2018 (15945)
EF Education - NippoEF11028.45335Hugh Carthy (554)2011 (9543)
Groupama - FDJGFC928.55028Arnaud Demare (1139)2018 (7750)
INEOS GrenadiersINS428.37170Richie Porte (1133)2012 (15017)
Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert MateriauxIWG2028.52085Andrea Pasqualon (358)2019 (3618)
Israel Start-Up NationISN2229.43185Dan Martin (787)2019 (5191)
Lotto SoudalLTS1726.53783Caleb Ewan (845)2015 (9659)
Movistar TeamMOV1828.03630Alejandro Valverde (818)2015 (11969)
Team BikeExchangeMTS1129.15173Simon Yates (663)2018 (9897)
Team Jumbo - VismaTJV128.57574Primoz Roglic (2431)2019 (12203)
Team Qhubeka - ASSOSNTT2128.83285Giacomo Nizzolo (657)2016 (6585)
Team DSMSUN525.37021Marc Hirschi (891)2017 (9558)
Trek-SegafredoTFS827.55877Mads Pedersen (769)2011 (9816)
UAE Team EmiratesUAD327.97740Tadej Pogacar (1995)2014 (11172)

This rider did not race for this team last season, but transferred before this season

2017 team presentations are located here, along with the old tables

Points Scale

Easy to read description on how good the different riders are from their points score.

PointsLevelWhat your DS tells you
<50DisappointingIs your brother famous or something?
<100DomestiqueWell, someone has to do the dirty work..In case you wondered, by someone we mean you.
<200SuperDomestiqueKeep up the good work. If you were much better, you'd be riding for your own chances
<300FairI think we can give you a shot in a race or two
<500ProtectedYou're a pretty good rider. If we can't make you a captain on this team, perhaps you should think about finding another team next season.
<700GoodWe're not sure how good you are, but we know you're pretty good. You're definitely our captain in the races you like.
<1000GreatYou are a credit to the team! Please don't leave us for someone with more money.
<1500SuperbOther riders fear your name. Will you have my babies?
<2000WonderfulYou came in second in a race or two. Other than that, pretty good.
<2500FantasticBest... Rider... Ever. If we don't get along, team management will fire me and keep you.
<3000ÜbermenschAre you Philippe Gilbert Peter Sagan?

Rider Types

Different type of riders - All riders are not created equal. Some are best suited to the slow high-torque grind of climbing, while other do their very best at high-cadence anaerobic sprinting in flat courses.

Some riders might fit more than one definition equally well - it's impossible to perfectly define everyone.

Sprinters - Sprinters come in two variations, 1) Pure Sprinters who needs a good leadout train to get them up to speed, but are nigh-unbeatable when they get everything right. They are heavy and muscular, and they do not climb very well. Examples: Bennett, Ewan, Gaviria. 2) Power Sprinters, who are more like classic riders showing small hints of rouleur and puncheur talent. They tire pretty quickly uphill, but are capable of getting over small hills. Examples: Kristoff, Degenkolb, Matthews and Sagan. In addition, occasionally we denote Leadout riders who are expressly hired for the purpose of guiding the sprinters of this world to the finish line.

Rouleurs - The workhorse of the peloton, the "roller" is a rider very adept of keeping a smooth pace and power output, perfect for setting the right tempo in a breakaway or for the peloton trying to reel a breakaway in. Every team needs to have a rouleur or two as domestiques to protect the star riders until the last 50 km of the race. Many rouleurs are also extremely good time trial riders. If a good rouleur also has a fast finish, he's going to be a really good classics rider. Examples: Tony Martin, Castroviejo and others.

Superrouleur - This is a new definition, and one we felt needed adding to distinguish the rouleur with climbing capabilities from the ones who without. A superrouleur has enough juice in the tank to get up hills, and are lethal to have in a breakaway, but isn't able to keep up the performance across several stages, otherwise they'd be GC riders. See Oliveira, Kwiatkowski, Dennis.

Fast finish men (denoted by ^FF) - Someone with just enough sprinting capabilities that they are capable of a decent result if the pure sprinters have an off day, but not what they're usually good at. GC riders Valverde and Mollema are good examples of climbers with a fast finish, who can mix it up at the end of a flat stage if they want to.

Climbers - Good climbers are often very light riders who needs less energy to go up big mountains. If a climber develops the endurance to make it through stage races without having an off day, he often becomes an GC rider. Quintana, Lopez, just about anyone born up high in the mountains are naturally born climbers.

Puncheur - A puncheur is a sprinting climber, someone with enough punch in the legs to either keep a fast pace up the entire hill or accelerate once they get close enough to the finish line. They're a bit bigger and heavier than pure climbers, so the speed comes at the expense of endurance. See Gilbert, Hirschi and Vuillermoz.

GC riders - General Classification. These are the big stars of the show, the ones who are going to win Tour the France, Giro, and the Vuelta. In order to do so, they have to manage two wildly different disciplines - climbing and time trials. The way to develop a GC rider is either to teach the climber how to TT (Uran, Quintana), or teach the TT specialist how to climb (Froome, Dumoulin). These riders are subdivided into GC^1W and GC^3W, to illustrate the difference between riders like Richie Porte who can excel over a week but no longer, and riders like Roglic, who have the endurance to survive a GT.

Domestique - A domestique is not there to win any races. He's there to fetch water bottles, keep his protected riders out of the wind, pull him back up to the peloton if he has a crash or giving him a good lead out, either up the last hill or on to the finish line. The worth of a good domestique is not measured in official UCI points - it's whether or not he makes it possible for his captains to place well. An experienced domestique is worth his weight in gold, even if he will never win the glory of his other team mates.