The UCI released the bulk of its 2025 road calendar this week, confirming the addition of a men's and women's World Tour event in Denmark called the Copenhagen Sprint.
The Women's World Tour will continue to consist of 30 events next season, while the Men's World Tour will consist of 36 events. Both series will begin with the Tour Down Under and continue through the Tour of Guangxi.
The new Copenhagen Sprint will take place on June 21, 2025, a 160 km race from the Viking Museum in Roskilde to the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen, with three local 10 km circuits for the women and five local circuits for the men on June 22 A 230km route will be set.
The event will serve as a prelude to the Ronde van Drenthe and the Drentze 8 van Westerveld. Organizers announced in July that the event would end its 65-year history. Charity recreational cycling events will continue to be held in the region, but the professional race was ended due to the loss of police escorts, stricter regulations, and rising costs.
The Women's World Tour also lost the Ride London Classic. This was canceled when the UCI changed the date of the event from late May to early June due to a scheduling conflict with the Vuelta a Burgos Femeninas.
The women's Tour de Romandie was shortened to three days and will be held August 15-17 instead of September.
Other changes to the calendar include a shift in the spring classics, with the men's and women's Brabantse Pijl moved from the Wednesday before the Amstel Gold Race to Friday, April 18.
Next year's Amstel Gold Races are Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Ronde van Limburg, Brabantse Pijl, will be organized for the first time by Flanders Classics, which hosts the Brabantse Pijl.
The UCI Pro Series will be held on January 26 with one-day races for the women's Down Under Classic (previously a criterium), the Vuelta CV Femeninas, GP Oettingen, the women's Veenendaal-Veenendaal (previously all 1.1 places),
the The four days of Dunkerque (4 Jours de Dunkerque) were split into the Pro Series 1-day Classic Dunkerque on May 13 before the Pro Series 5-day stage race.
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