Peter Sagan has retained his place atop the individual WorldTour standings after the Tour de France with the Tinkoff rider accumulating 445 points so far this season. Third place finisher at the Tour, Nairo Quintana has jumped from fourth to second place with 407 points while Tour winner Chris Froome (Team Sky) was a big mover, improving from 21st to third on 396 points.
Movistar are top of the team standings for the first time this season with a haul of 1102 points while Tinkoff drop to second on 1046 points with Team Sky third on 1019 points. In the nation standings, Spain continues to lead with Colombia its closest challenger, 70 in arrears on 1015. In total, 35 different nations have scored points in the 2016 WorldTour season.
While Froome was a big mover on the individual rankings due to the 200 point haul as overall Tour de France winner, AG2R-La Mondiale's Romain Bardet was jumped up the standings with 150 points for the runner-up, moving from 20th to sixth. Daniel Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) is the other rider to move into the top-ten in seventh place while Jon Izaguirre (Movistar), Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) drop out. After 19 WorldTour races, 196 riders have scored points.
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The hauls of Quintana, Alejandro Valverde and Izagirre helped propelled Movistar to the top of the team standings, dislodging Tinkoff from the top position which it had held since Gent–Wevelgem. The majority of teams only moved one or two positions in the standings while AG2R-La Mondiale the standout as the French squad jumped from 16th to 11th. Team Dimension Data remain bottom of the 18 teams with 240 points.
Spain has extended its stay as the top nations, a position it's now held since Liège–Bastogne–Liège, with Colombia (1015 points) and France (941 points) also holding onto their second and third places. Due to Froome's win and Adam Yates' fourth place, Great Britain are now fourth with 873 points while Australia remains fifth. Croatia became the 35th nation to score points with Kristijan Durasek picking up four points at the Tour de France.
Clásica de San Sebastián is the next WorldTour race on the calendar, taking place on July 30 in Spain with the Vuelta a España the penultimate stage race of the season, starting August 20 and finishing 11 September.
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