Little more than two weeks into the new year, the stars of the peloton already face the first events of the 2025 UCI Women’s WorldTour. As is tradition, the new season starts in Australia, with the Santos Tour Down Under (17-19 January), to be followed by the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (1st February), before moving to the Arabian Peninsula for the UAE Tour Women (6-9 February) ahead of the first European events.
The 28 races on the calendar of the 2025 UCI Women’s WorldTour make for 79 days of racing around the world, visiting 12 countries from Australia to China, where the series will conclude with the Tour of Chongming Island (14-16 October) and the Tour of Guangxi (19 October).
The season comes with exciting novelties, including the introduction of two one-day races, Milano-Sanremo (Italy) and Copenhagen Sprint (Denmark). The stakes are very high in a decisive year: the current UCI Women’s WorldTour licences expire at the end of the season, and teams will need to meet the sporting criteria for the ranking to obtain licences for the new three-year cycle (2026 – 2028).
The big news this year is the presence of the Professional teams in the women’s field, that CPA Women helped to establish. To explain the rule changes for the 2025 season, the CPA has organized two meetings to clear any doubts riders may have. The appointment on Zoom with Adam Hansen and Alessandra Cappellotto is for Tuesday, January 14, 8:30 PM Australian time (11 AM CEST) and Thursday, January 16, 8:30 PM CEST.
Happy start of the season everybody!
photo Massimo Fulgenzi/SprintCyclingAgency©2024
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