2020 UCI World Tour


The 2020 UCI World Tour is a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season, although some of these are at least postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January, and is scheduled to conclude with the final stage of the Tour of Guangxi on 10 November.

Events

The 2020 calendar was initially announced in June 2019. In October 2019, the calendar was officially presented by the UCI.
There were two races fewer in the original schedule than in the 2019 UCI World Tour:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that commenced in the spring, numerous races were postponed, including all three Grand Tours and four of the five annual 'monuments'. As a result, race organisers requested new date allocations with the Union Cycliste Internationale for many of these events.
On 5 May 2020, a revised calendar was announced by the UCI, with 25 races to be held between 1 August and 8 November; several races were scheduled to overlap, including the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. Of the 25, Eschborn–Frankfurt and the EuroEyes Cyclassics had dates still to be confirmed at the time of the calendar's publication. Further amendments were made to the calendar in June, with two more races being cancelled, several others moving dates and the EuroEyes Cyclassics was scheduled for October.
RaceDateWinnerSecondThird
Tour Down Under21–26 January
Great Ocean Road Race2 February
UAE Tour23–27 February
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad29 February
Paris–Nice8–14 March
Strade Bianche1 August
Tour de Pologne5–9 August
Milan–San Remo8 August
Critérium du Dauphiné12–16 August
Il Lombardia15 August
Bretagne Classic Ouest–France25 August
Tour de France29 August – 20 September
Tirreno–Adriatico7–14 September
BinckBank Tour29 September – 3 October
La Flèche Wallonne30 September
Giro d'Italia3–25 October
Liège–Bastogne–Liège4 October
Amstel Gold Race10 October
Gent–Wevelgem11 October
Tour of Flanders18 October
Vuelta a España20 October – 8 November
Three Days of Bruges–De Panne21 October
Paris–Roubaix25 October
Tour of Guangxi5–10 November

Cancelled events

A total of twelve events were not able to rescheduled, or were definitively cancelled during the 2020 season; the centennial Volta a Catalunya, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Tour de Romandie, the Tour de Suisse, and the Clásica de San Sebastián were all cancelled prior to any updated calendars being released by the UCI. Following the May calendar update, the E3 BinckBank Classic, and the RideLondon–Surrey Classic were both cancelled; in the June calendar update, Eschborn–Frankfurt, and Dwars door Vlaanderen were also cancelled. In July, the EuroEyes Cyclassics, and the two Canadian races in Québec City and Montréal were cancelled.