Numbers don’t lie and show things as they are. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has updated the individual ranking which can now be considered definitive and final for 2024 when there are no more level races left on the calendar and the teams hold their first meetings for the next season.
Well, because it cannot be otherwise after the year marked, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar He leads the ranking with an iron fist, with 11,655 points. He Leading the UAE Team Emirates He won all but two of the races in which he competed, victories achieved after tremendous displays and memorable solo attacks, in a season in which he achieved the historic double of Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France or become a world champion on the road.
Behind him, the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, with a total of 6,072.57 points. The leader of Soudal has undoubtedly also had a good year, in everyone’s memory the third place overall in the Tour de France, the double of Olympic Games in Paris, route and time trial or the conquest of the time trial Zurich World Championships (Switzerland).
The Belgian is also in third place in the ranking Jasper Philipsenwith 4,790 points, in his nine victories this season, three of them achieved in the Tour de France and victory in benchmark races such as Milan-Sanremo or Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders.
THE RANKING
1. Tade Pogacar (ESL/UAE Team Emirates): 11,655 points
2. Remco Evenepoel (BEL/Soudal-Quick-Step): 6,072.57 points
3.Jasper Philipsen (BEL/Alpecin-Deceuninck): 4,790 points
4.Ben O’Connor (AUS/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale): 4,096 points
5. Mathieu Van der Poel (PB/Alpecin-Deceunick): 4,053 points
6. Marc Hirschi (SUI/UAE Team Emirates): 3,568 points
7.Jonas Vingegaard (DIN/Team Visma Lease a Bike) 3,536 points
8. Primoz Roglic (ESL/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe): 3,471 points
9. Biniam Girmay (ERI/Interarché-Wanty): 3,352 points
10. Wout Van Aert (BEL/Team Visma-Lease a Bike): 2,925 points
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11. Enric Mas (ESP/Movistar Team) : 2,851 points
20. Carlos Rodríguez (ESP/Ineos Grenadiers): 2,290.86 points
24. Mikel Landa (ESP/Soudal Quick-Step): 2,097 points
25. Juan Ayuso (ESP/UAE Team Emirates): 2,083 points
The presence of Enric Mas in 11th place after a good end to the season of Movistar runner. The second Spanish cyclist is Carlos Rodríguezwhich closes in the top ten.
Source: La Verdad
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