Although the Vuelta a Colombia is not included in the UCI category (the most important in world cycling), Lopez managed to score the necessary points to overtake
Santiago Buitrago and
Sergio Higuita, who occupy the 44th and 47th positions in the UCI ranking, respectively.
On the other hand, there are two other Colombian cyclists who are part of the top 100 of the world ranking. They are
Einer Rubio, who is ranked 64th, and
Rigoberto Urán, who remained in 82nd place.
As the Tour de France approaches, Tadej Pogačar remains the top rider in the UCI rankings with a total of 6,612 points. The Slovenian starts as one of the big favourites in the "Grande Boucle", as well as Belgian Wout Van Aert and Danish Jonas Vingegaard. The two leaders of the Jumbo-Visma team remain third and fourth in the ranking, respectively. Remco Evenepoel remains in second place in the world rankings.
