UCI Rankings Team Update | UAE extends lead; INEOS loses positions; BORA up after Primoz Roglic's Vuelta victory

The most recent update in the UCI rankings adds up results from the Vuelta a España, BEMER Cyclassics and Tour of Britain. UAE Team Emirates had a bad Vuelta but still managed to increase their lead whilst Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe comes very close to the podium after a great performance in the final Grand Tour of the season.

You can check the previous update. Despite a disaster Vuelta a España, UAE Team Emirates still managed to increase it's lead on Visma. Jay Vine won the KOM classification; whilst on Visma's side it was equally disastrous with Wout van Aert's abandon and Sepp Kuss' lack of peak form. The Dutch team did win BEMER Cyclassics with Olav Kooij but it was only enough to score around 600 points in this update whilst UAE added around 1100.

But both were far behind what others did. Lidl-Trek remains third scoring about the same as UAE and Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe climmbed from 7th to 4th after scoring around 2500, fruit of Primoz Roglic's victory at the Vuelta and also Florian Lipowitz' breakthrough Grand Tour. Soudal - Quick-Step remains fifth but overtook INEOS Grenadiers who comes down from fourth to sixth.

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Between Lidl and INEOS there are only 800 points however separating four teams, the gaps are very small. Shortly behind is Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale who also scored 1200 points much due to Ben O'Connor's stupendous Vuelta that earned him a second place. David Gaudu's sixth place saw Groupama - FDJ rise from 11th to 10th, overtaking Israel - Premier Tech who won the Tour of Britain with Stephen Williams.

Movistar climbed from 15th to 13th with Enric Mas' Vuelta, Bahrain - Victorious on the other hand descended from 14th to 17th after a lackluster race. Astana remain the lowest-scoring World Tour team this year, losing ground to Cofidis, and around 2500 points behind ProTeam Uno-X Mobility that is even entering the fight for the 2026 UCI licenses.

UCI Teams Update; Date: 11/09/2024
*This ranking represents the UCI points scored in 2024 among the team's top 20 riders.