UCI Rankings Rider Update | Tadej Pogacar brutally dominates competition; Evenepoel and Vingegaard join him on the podium

The UCI points scored during the Tour de France have been added to the rankings and the standings have changed quite a bit. However at the top that is not the case as yellow jersey winner Tadej Pogacar has extended his lead even more and only one rider has more than half the points of the UAE Team Emirates rider.

Pogacar, after winning a lot this year including the Giro d'Italia, only showed himself stronger at the Tour by winning six stages, putting in career-best performances and beating Jonas Vingegaard by several minutes. He effectively has over 10.000 points now and only one other rider has above 5000 points which is Remco Evenepoel: a very complete rider that has also thrived during the Tour and has brought in plenty points with a stupendous third place alongside the Slovenian and Jonas Vingegaard. You can check the previous update. 

Vingegaard is the rider who completes the podium at this point, losing points in this update actually as he he lost the points of having won the Tour last year; but holding on against the rest of the field. Jasper Philipsen descended from third to fourth whilst Mathieu van der Poel descended from fourth to fifth. Primoz Roglic surprisingly climbed up to sixth despite not finishing the Tour; that is because Mads Pedersen (now 7th) and Adam Yates (now 13th) have lost significant points they had scored last year.

Aleksandr Vlasov, similarly, climbed to ninth because of this and Wout van Aert climbed back to the Top10 ahead of the Olympic Games. This Tour has seen the rise in the standings of riders such as João Almeida (37th to 14th); Mikel Landa (48th to 19th); Matteo Jorgenson (23rd to 15th); Derek Gee (from outside Top100 to 66th) and Santiago Buitrago (80th to 53rd) because of the points scored in the overall classification. KOM classification winner climbed from 67th to 26th whilst Biniam Girmay rose from 56th to 16th place with his immense success on the Tour with three stage wins and points classification added to his palmarès.