The highest level of women's professional cycling will assemble for the start of the 2019 Women's WorldTour at Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy on Saturday. It will be the beginning of a 23-event series from March to October that will take fans of the sport on a journey over pavé and mountains, down daring descents and to flat run-ins to the finish lines in 10 countries, and on three continents around the world.
Follow the Women's WorldTour on Cyclingnews for in-depth coverage and analysis of the races, along with our features and news that will highlight the world-class athletes, overall contenders, climbers, rouleurs, time triallists and neo-pros that make up the women's professional peloton.
Many of these athletes are staples among the top 15 teams on the UCI team world ranking. The team ranking, which the sport's governing body published in January, is based on the sum of individual rider points for each team, and this ranking is what determines who will receive automatic invitations to race the UCI Women's WorldTour.
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Boels Dolmans topped that list ahead of Mitchelton-Scott, CCC-Liv, Trek-Segafredo, Sunweb, Canyon-SRAM, WNT-Rotor, Team Virtu Cycling, Valcar Cylance Cycling, Movistar, Tibco-SVB, Parkhotel Valkenburg, Ale Cipollini, FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope and Bigla.
Women's cycling has reached a tipping point, whereby there has been an outcry for bigger and better races, more TV time, fairer contracts, and overall improvements to the working conditions for women in the sport. The rate of change, at times, seems slow, but change is happening. The level of athleticism among the peloton, however, has never been higher than it is right now, which will make this year's Women's WorldTour more compelling to follow that it ever has been.
In a peloton that is brimming with world-class cyclists, Cyclingnews highlights just a handful of the names that are sure to stand out during the 2019 Women’s WorldTour.
The overall contenders
The climbers
The rouleurs
The sprinters
The next generation
2019 UCI Women's WorldTour calendar
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