2020 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2020 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition that initially included twenty-one road cycling events throughout the 2020 women's cycling season. It is the fifth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale in 2016. The competition began with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race Women on 1 February.
The schedule was extensively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in two-thirds of the races on the calendar being either postponed or cancelled outright. As a result, the season was extended until 10 November, when the Tour of Guangxi is scheduled to take place.
Events
For the 2020 season, the calendar consisted of 21 races, down from 23 in 2019. The RideLondon Classique lost its place in the Women's World Tour due to scheduling conflicts resulting from the Olympic races, and the Emakumeen Euskal Bira and Tour of California was cancelled due to financial pressures.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UCI announced that all UCI races in China in April and May would be cancelled or rescheduled, including the Tour of Chongming Island. Due to further outbreaks in Italy, Strade Bianche was postponed to an undetermined date, Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio was delayed until June. On 12 March, the Ronde van Drenthe was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. while all Belgian races were cancelled until 3 April, removing the Three Days of Bruges–De Panne, and Gent–Wevelgem from the schedule. The following day, The Women's Tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Three Belgian races were postponed on 17 March, with the Amstel Gold Race also postponed the following day. By mid-April, only one race had been completed, while thirteen other races had been either postponed or cancelled outright; no racing was rescheduled before July.
On 5 May 2020, a revised calendar was announced by the UCI, with 18 races to be held between 1 August and 8 November, including the introduction of a women's Paris–Roubaix. In June, in line with the men's race, the Tour of Guangxi was moved from 20 October to 10 November.
| Race | Date | First | Second | Third | Leader |
 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race Women | 1 February | ||||
 Strade Bianche | 1 August | ||||
 GP de Plouay – Lorient Agglomération Trophée WNT | 26 August | ||||
| La Course by Le Tour de France | 29 August | ||||
| Giro Rosa | 11–19 September | ||||
 La Flèche Wallonne | 30 September | ||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | 4 October | ||||
 Amstel Gold Race | 10 October | ||||
| Gent–Wevelgem | 11 October | ||||
| Tour of Flanders | 18 October | ||||
| Three Days of Bruges–De Panne | 20 October | ||||
 Tour of Chongming Island | 23–25 October | ||||
| Paris–Roubaix | 25 October | ||||
 Ceratizit Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta | 6–8 November | ||||
| Tour of Guangxi | 10 November |
Cancelled events
Three events that were initially postponed in the first half of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were not able to rescheduled during the season; these were the Ronde van Drenthe due to be held on 15 March, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio due to be held on 2 June, and The Women's Tour due to be held from 8 to 13 June.Following the release of the revised calendar on 5 May, the Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT and Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden, scheduled for 8 and 9 August, were cancelled on 14 May. The Ladies Tour of Norway, scheduled between 13–16 August, was cancelled on 4 June. The Holland Ladies Tour, scheduled for 1–6 September, was cancelled on 27 July.