The 2023 Males’s and Ladies’s WorldTour is a wrap and Cyclingnews dug deep into the information, pulling out all kinds of statistics, notes and oddball info.
First, let’s get to the elemental stats of which groups and riders have been probably the most a hit prior to digging deeper into the information from the season.
We’re going to get started with the UCI’s International Scores. The person ratings are in line with a rolling 12-month window of effects, with riders incomes issues for the whole lot from degree or one-day race finishes, total classifications of degree races, main a degree race, and for Grand Excursions, successful the issues or mountains classification. It additionally contains nationwide, continental, and international championships and regional video games.
There also are workforce ratings which, for males, are in line with every workforce’s most sensible 20 scoring riders, and for ladies are in line with every workforce’s most sensible 8 riders.
With wide-ranging good fortune from the Excursion of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne and Il Lombardia to podiums on the Excursion de France and Worlds, Tadej Pogačar crowned the boys’s person ratings.
Demi Vollering and her SD Worx teammates wrote the definition of the phrase dominance in 2023. Vollering walked away with probably the most person wins and issues after hardly ever placing a foot improper all yr.
| Header Mobile – Column 0 | Males’s WorldTour | Ladies’s WorldTour |
|---|---|---|
| #1 Ranked Rider | Tadej Pogačar | Demi Vollering |
| #1 Ranked Workforce | UAE Workforce Emirates | SD Worx |
| Maximum wins | Jasper Philipsen (19) | Demi Vollering (17) |
| Groups | 18 | 15 |
| Riders | 530 | 240 |
| Reasonable race days/rider | 56.9 | 36.4 |
| Reasonable kilometres raced/rider | 9,279 | 4,153 |
Workforce ratings
We centered at the most sensible 22 groups within the males’s International Scores – those are the groups perhaps to be searching for a spot within the WorldTour within the subsequent promotion/relegation spherical on the finish of 2025 – and the highest 18 girls’s groups, maximum of which can be searching for WorldTour standing in 2024.
UAE Workforce Emirates crowned the UCI International Scores for groups in 2023, scoring an enormous 30,958 issues. They completed forward of Jumbo-Visma, who received the Excursion de France, Giro d’Italia and swept the rostrum within the Vuelta a España, in large part because of Pogačar’s victories within the Monuments and podiums on the Excursion de France and UCI Street International Championships. Soudal-Quickstep have been a higher preferrred with 18,698.
This season represented the primary yr of the three-year UCI promotion/relegation cycle for males, and a few groups may have grave issues about their long term, being outdoor the highest 18 groups and now not assembly the wearing requirement to stay within the WorldTour in 2026 to this point.
Astana Qazaqstan completed a dark twentieth and are nearly 2,000 issues adrift of Workforce dsm-firmenich, who’re in 18th. Arkéa-Samsic did not fare a lot better, incomes simplest 185 issues extra.
These days ProTeams after being relegated, Lotto-Dstny and Israel-Premier Tech can really feel rather somewhat extra assured after touchdown firmly within the most sensible 16. They’ll earn computerized access into the WorldTour races subsequent season. Uno-X have been the next-best ProTeam and might be mechanically invited to WorldTour one-day races in 2024.
This season used to be the top of the promotion/relegation cycle for the Ladies’s WorldTour, and there are 18 candidates for 15 Ladies’s WorldTour licences to be had for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
That is the primary season that the ladies’s groups have confronted a relegation device as the game governing frame offered a brand new ‘wearing’ requirement, which provides in combination every workforce’s UCI issues around the 2022 and 2023 seasons. This new issues requirement might be considered along the opposite 4 standards: administrative, moral, monetary, and organisational.
As a result of the death of the EF Training-Tibco-SVB workforce and the merger between Liv Racing Teqfind and Workforce Jayco-Alula, all the groups lately within the most sensible tier will have to be capable of stay put.
AG Soudal-Insurance coverage-Quickstep will have to sign up for the WorldTour in conjunction with Ceratizit-WNT. Cofidis, in conjunction with lots of the different lower-ranked groups, didn’t decide to use. The Basque Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi workforce carried out however are neatly outdoor the highest 15 groups.
Particular person Scores
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) ruled the boys’s person ratings – a 12-month rolling window of issues won. He earned 7,695.86 issues. Excursion de France winner Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) used to be subsequent with 6,307, and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) 0.33 with 5,631.71.
Demi Vollering (SD Worx) used to be similarly dominant, taking house 6,038.86 issues with 2nd positioned teammate, International Champion Lotte Kopecky incomes 4,367. Marlen Reusser and Lorena Wiebes made it an SD Worx sweep of the highest 4 spots, with Annemiek van Vleuten the most efficient non-SD Worx rider in 5th.
Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) introduced house probably the most wins in 2023 at 19. The Belgian’s 4 Excursion de France levels and the golf green jersey have been probably the most prestigious, however he additionally claimed the Vintage Brugge-De Panne and Scheldeprijs, amongst different effective effects.
Pogačar used to be subsequent with 17 wins, rounding out the person winner’s podium. Primož Roglič and Vingegaard claimed 15.
Vollering received probably the most within the girls’s peloton with 17, Kopecky claimed 14 wins together with the coveted rainbow jersey in Glasgow, and Charlotte Kool nudged Lorena Wiebes off the rostrum, getting another victory than the Dutch rider at 13.
Jumbo-Visma received probably the most as a workforce with 66 victories, Soudal-Quickstep had 58, and UAE Workforce Emirates 57.
SD Worx ruled the ladies’s season with 60 wins, FDJ-Suez have been subsequent at 19 and Movistar Workforce at 18.
Oddball info
| Header Mobile – Column 0 | Males | Ladies |
|---|---|---|
| Longest solo victory* | 29km: Remco Evenepoel (Vuelta degree 18) | 35.2km: Ricarda Bauernfeind (Excursion de France degree 5) |
| Maximum issues/days raced | 160: Tadej Pogacar | 131.6: Demi Vollering |
| Maximum WorldTour wins | 38: Jumbo-Visma | 40: SD Worx |
In 2023, the riders of the highest 22 groups raced a mean of 57 race days, with a few of them competing throughout many extra. The ladies’s most sensible 18 groups raced a mean of 36 days. Cyclingnews ranked riders in line with issues earned in keeping with days raced to place a top quality determine on every rider’s season.
The arena’s most sensible ranked rider Pogačar simplest raced 48, making his racing days the very best quality at greater than 160 issues in keeping with day. 2nd-ranked Jonas Vingegaard won a mean of 95.5 issues in keeping with day.
Wout van Aert, racing 51 days, had the third-highest high quality issue at 93.3 issues in keeping with race day, and Mathieu van der Poel earned 92.5 moderate over 45 days.
Of the effects that factored into every workforce’s ratings, Vingegaard had the very best moderate completing place at 2.7 and probably the most effects incomes issues – 64 other finishes from levels, GC, dressed in the maillot jaune and many others. Vingegaard simplest had a handful of finishes outdoor the issues, principally on dash levels at Paris-Great, Itzulia Basque Nation, the Criterium du Dauphiné, Excursion de France and Vuelta a España.
Remco Evenepoel used to be subsequent with 56 effects and a mean rank of three.375.
Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky, and Puck Pieterse had the very best quality seasons within the girls’s peloton. Vollering raced 46 days and earned a mean of 131.6 issues in keeping with day. Kopecky used to be now not some distance at the back of with 129 issues moderate throughout her 34 days of racing.
Pieterse made an excessively transient street look prior to turning to mountain motorbike racing, and her 5th position in Strade Bianche used to be price 180 issues.
Lanterne Rouge
The domestiques of the peloton paintings within the shadows of the famous person riders, incessantly competing in lots of extra races than a rider like Pogačar or Vingegaard. They are referred to as into carrier to fill out rosters for the in poor health or injured and to make stronger leaders. Their activity is not to attain issues however to bury themselves for the riders that do.
It will probably glance fruitless to race all season and infrequently ranking some degree, however it is a badge of honour. Larry Warbasse wins the Lanterne Rouge prize for the 2023 season.
Warbasse finished 87 race days, and probably the most kilometres of racing at 13,787 (consistent with FirstCycling.com) – 2nd simplest to Luis Léon Sanchez (Astana), who raced 88 days. Right through that point Warbasse simplest collected 80 issues, however helped his workforce to seventeenth position within the UCI ratings.
Within the girls’s peloton, Elizabeth Stannard (Israel-Premier Tech Roland) raced 58 days and earned simply 112 issues, her arduous paintings now not counting without delay towards the workforce’s ratings, making her the ladies’s Lanterne Rouge.
Claire Steels and Barbara Malcotti raced probably the most days with 63 however earned sufficient issues to make their workforce’s most sensible 8.
Consequences
Riders are penalized UCI issues for a lot of rule violations, for anything else as harmless as tossing their bidons and trash outdoor designated zones to the way more egregious endangering fellow riders. Intermarché-Circus-Wanty have been penalized probably the most at the males’s facet, whilst FDJ-Suez have been docked probably the most issues within the girls’s peloton.
Honest play award:
AG2R Citroën – the one workforce of the highest 22 to head all of the season and not using a penalty. The ladies’s peloton used to be a lot better behaved and had 13 of the 18 most sensible groups move with out consequences.
Crimson playing cards:
Niccolo Bonifazio were given probably the most consequences in 2023, 100 of which got here from an incident on the Giro d’Italia for “flawed behavior or behaviour this is indecent and that endangers others (directed at a rider)” and 25 issues for tossing a bidon.
At the girls’s facet, FDJ-Suez had 70 penalty issues, 55 of which got here from Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig.
Dangerous boy workforce:
Now not making an allowance for Bonifazio, who introduced Intermarché-Circus-Wanty’s penalty tally from 100 issues to 225, the Ineos Grenadiers have been the workforce that flouted the principles probably the most, racking up 190 issues from 5 other riders: Tom Pidcock misplaced 50 issues, Filippo Ganna 40 and Egan Bernal, Jonathan Castroviejo, Magnus Sheffield and Geraint Thomas all have been docked 25 for more than a few minor offences.
Most expensive penalty:
On degree 16 of the Giro d’Italia, Marius Mayrhofer (Workforce dsm-firmenich) ran afoul of the UCI’s regulations on littering, shedding his waste outdoor of the designated zone. That offence value him 25 UCI issues – which does not appear to be so much till you believe that the penalty dropped his workforce at the back of AG2R Citroën into 18th position, placing them nearer to the relegation zone.
WorldTour outlook
The UCI expanded the International Score workforce classification to the highest 20 riders’ issues after the ultimate relegation spherical in 2022 after groups complained the device too closely weighted the one-day races, amongst different proceedings.
Cyclingnews amassed all the riders’ effects and calculated their issues from this yr as though the 2020-2022 issues device used to be nonetheless in position.
The result used to be the highest 18 didn’t trade, the similar 4 groups have been on the backside of the ratings, however the order modified considerably.
Beneath the outdated regulations, Jumbo-Visma would had been the highest workforce however UAE Workforce Emirates were given a spice up below the brand new regulations thank you in large part to Tadej Pogačar’s best efficiency within the Monuments, which now are price 300 extra issues for the win when put next with ultimate yr.
The workforce that benefitted probably the most, alternatively, used to be Bahrain-Victorious, who put nearly all in their efforts into WorldTour races, extra particularly the Grand Excursions. The workforce won a whopping 85% in their issues from the WorldTour, about part of the ones got here within the Grand Excursions.
The ones races had an important spice up in point-earning energy when put next with the Professional Sequence, championships and lower-ranked races whose level values did not trade in any respect. Bahrain Victorious ended up 6th this yr however would had been 9th below the outdated regulations.
The workforce that misplaced probably the most below the trade used to be Cofidis, who would had been eleventh below the outdated regulations, forward of Bora-Hansgrohe, Jayco-Alula, Movistar and Intermarché however ended up in fifteenth, principally because of their effects on the ProSeries and x.1 races being a reasonably greater portion in their palmares for the yr and value extra within the outdated device.
Switch have an effect on
The transfer of Primož Roglič from Jumbo-Visma to Bora-Hansgrohe used to be one of the crucial largest transfers of the yr and may have a large have an effect on at the ratings subsequent season, if his file holds or improves.
Roglič earned 5,604 issues and if the issues transferred with him (they do not), his overall would transfer Bora-Hansgrohe into fourth within the workforce ratings forward of Soudal-Quickstep and Ineos Grenadiers.
On the other hand, since Jumbo-Visma have been to this point above Soudal-Quickstep, the departure of Roglič do not have affected their status.
It is too quickly to mention how the already introduced transfers will have an effect on the rating dynamics subsequent yr, as only some groups have introduced their ultimate rosters.
Lidl-Trek have made an enormous bid with their acquisition of 10 riders together with Andrea Bagioli, Tao Geoghegan Hart, and Jonathan Milan. Their level tallies would have driven Lidl-Trek into 0.33 within the ratings and may have a large have an effect on in 2024.
Bahrain-Victorious, dropping Mikel Landa to Ineos, and Groupama-FDJ with Thibaut Pinot’s retirement, have been the most important switch losers to this point. Each would had been just right for 5 misplaced spots within the workforce ratings.
Astana’s signing of a dozen riders, maximum significantly Davide Ballerini and Michael Mørkøv from Quickstep, Ide Schelling from Bora and Max Kanter from Movistar may well be sufficient to boost them out of the relegation zone.
*in keeping with Procyclingstats.com