Tour of Scandinavia 2024 cancelled with funding problems, looks to return in 2025

The Tour of Scandinavia will not take place in 2024 due to a lack of funding, the organisers announced on Friday. The Women’s WorldTour stage race was set to take place from the 29 August to 1 September in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but organisers hope to return in 2025.

"With heavy hearts, the board, together with shareholders and management, have concluded that it is unfortunately not feasible to organize Tour of Scandinavia this year," a statement released by the organisers on Friday read.

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"Intensive efforts have been made in recent weeks to try to find solutions to ensure a financial basis for conducting the race, but we must acknowledge that we have not succeeded. There is a shortfall of approximately 3 MNOK (approximately €250,000, ed.) needed to achieve financial balance, and it would be irresponsible to plan for execution this year."

Tour of Scandinavia first launched in 2022, as an expanded version of the long-running Ladies Tour of Norway, quickly growing to six stages, though the 2024 edition was initially reduced to have only four.

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