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Cycling race calendar 2024The most important races in men's cycling

Sebastian Lindner

 · 02.01.2024

All races of the UCI World Tour 2024: 16-21 January: Santos Tour Down Under
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In 2024, 35 races will still be part of the UCI World Tour, the most important racing series in professional cycling. This is only set to change from 2026. Following criticism from the teams, the cycling world federation wants to thin out. There will also be many other highlights in 2024, such as the Olympics, the World Cycling Championships and the Deutschland Tour.

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The UCI's racing calendar for its most important road racing series, the World Tour, will stretch from January to October 2024. It will kick off with the Santos Tour Down Under in Australia from 16 to 21 January and conclude with the Tour of Guangxi from 15 to 20 October. The series comprises a total of 35 races. This includes 14 tours and 21 one-day races.

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The only two World Tour races on German soil are Eschborn-Frankfurt on 1 May and the Cyclassics in Hamburg on 8 September. This means that next year's World Tour will include the same races as in 2023, with the only slight changes being in the dates. But what remains the same: With ten races, March is by far the busiest month in the calendar.

UCI World Tour 2024: Races overlap

Double entries are not excluded. If you want to start in the Tour of Catalonia, you will miss out on several spring classics. Even the Tour de Suisse and the Criterium du Dauphine cannot both be contested in the same season. And even during the Vuelta a Espana in August and September, some World Tour events will be held in parallel.

However, this is set to end in 2026. UCI Sports Director Peter van den Abeele had already communicated this at the start of this season. The teams and the riders' union Cyclistes Professionnels Associes (CPA) had criticised the duplication. As the calendar can hardly be equalised any further, some races are likely to lose their World Tour status.

Further season highlights

In addition to the World Tour races, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is one of the highlights of the season. On the very second day of the competitions, on 27 Julythe Individual time trial of the men. The Road race is for the 3 August applied.

After the games, the World Championship on the programme. In Zurich the elite of the 21 to 29 September. Further top-class cycling on German soil is offered by Around Cologne on 26 Maywhich Germany tour from 21 to 25 August and the Münsterland Giro on 3 October. Date for the German Championship is the 23 June.

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