UCI WorldTour Riders Ranking Update: Pogacar concedes defeat, Tom Pidcock drops a spot, Matthew Brennan makes huge jump into top 25 and Enric Mas joins the elite

The conclusion of the Vuelta a España and a week packed with major races have triggered a genuine shake-up in the individual UCI Ranking. The season’s final Grand Tour, together with the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Montréal, both WorldTour, and other events such as the Memorial Marco Pantani, GP de Fourmies, and Trofeo Matteotti, delivered numerous changes in the world standings. Headliners include Isaac del Toro’s return to the podium after outscoring Seixas in Canada and Enric Mas’s remarkable leap following his win in Spain.

Tadej Pogacar retains the lead of the UCI Ranking despite abandoning the Vuelta a España. The Slovenian held a huge cushion thanks to points banked across the season and, crucially, the three stage wins he secured before being forced out of the Spanish race. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider totals 11,676.75 points. Right now, he has no real rival in the current peloton.

Second place remains in the hands of Remco Evenepoel, who sits on 7,921.61 points. The Belgian also won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and finished fifth in Montréal, results that keep him firmly placed near the top of the standings.

The major move among the top three comes from Isaac del Toro. The Mexican from UAE Team Emirates - XRG climbs back onto the UCI Ranking podium after triumphing at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. With 6,476.46 points, he overtakes Jonas Vingegaard to take third.

Del Toro reclaims a position he held for much of the early season. His victory in Montréal, achieved after a high-class display against Paul Seixas, helps him regain ground just before the World Championships, also in Canada.

Fittingly, Paul Seixas is another standout performer. The Frenchman finished second in Montréal and climbs two places to fourth, with 5,038.71 points. That shift pushes Vingegaard down from third to fifth.

The Dane has not raced since his crash at the Tour de France, and that absence carries a cost in a ranking where consistency and point accumulation are fundamental. Vingegaard drops two spots to 4,160.82 points.

Tom Pidcock also loses one place to sixth, while Jasper Philipsen holds seventh. Just behind comes one of the Vuelta’s big protagonists: Wout van Aert. The Belgian jumps seven places to eighth after a stellar Spanish campaign, taking two stage wins and the green jersey for the points classification.

Felix Gall completes the top 10, and Richard Carapaz delivers another of the week’s major surges. The Ecuadorian climbs eight places to tenth after finishing fourth overall at the Vuelta a España.

Significant moves also came outside the top 10. Mattias Skjelmose slips to 11th and Lenny Martinez to 12th, while Tobias Halland Johannessen rockets six places to 15th after winning the Vuelta’s final stage and taking second on the penultimate day.

But the biggest leap near the front belongs to Matthew Brennan. The young Briton from Team Visma | Lease a Bike vaults an astonishing 58 places, from 79th to 21st. His five stage wins at the Vuelta a España alone explain the scale of his rise. Brennan dominated the Spanish sprints and left as one of the race’s defining names.

Primoz Roglic also enjoys a spectacular climb. The Vuelta runner-up gains 56 places to 22nd in the UCI Ranking, with 2,214 points. The Slovenian delivered a high-level Spanish campaign after arriving with question marks over his form and finished second behind Enric Mas.

However, no one jumps as far as Enric Mas. The Vuelta a España winner makes the most dramatic move in the entire table: 225 places in one go.

The Movistar Team rider climbs to 24th in the UCI Ranking, with 2,153.14 points, after a week that has completely changed his position in the world standings.

Mas began the week outside the headline places, but his overall victory at the Vuelta and his stage win at Alto de Aitana pushed him past 2,000 UCI points and into the world’s top 25. His Vuelta triumph was also the first by a Spanish rider in the race since 2014.

Mas’s leap carries special weight after a difficult season for the Mallorcan. The Movistar rider has closed his Grand Tour campaign with the biggest success of his career and now sits high in the UCI Ranking.

From a Spanish perspective, Juan Ayuso drops six places to 30th after a tough week in Canada. The Lidl-Trek rider crashed in Québec and then rode in support in Montréal.

By contrast, Ion Izagirre climbs five spots to 32nd thanks to his victory at the Memorial Marco Pantani. Alex Aranburu holds 33rd and, together with Mas, Ayuso, and Izagirre, completes the Spanish presence inside the top 40.

Santiago Buitrago also deserves a special mention. The Bahrain Victorious rider jumps 38 places to 61st after a Vuelta where he took the mountains jersey and came close to a stage win.

Another huge leap comes from Oscar Onley. The Vuelta’s sixth overall moves up 115 positions to 69th in the UCI Ranking. Jakob Omrzel, for his part, climbs 114 places to 80th after winning a stage at the Spanish race and finishing seventh overall.

The Vuelta a España has, therefore, delivered a real shake-up in the UCI Ranking. Pogacar still dominates by a wide margin, but the standings behind him have shifted significantly: Del Toro returns to the podium, Seixas bursts into fourth, Van Aert enters the top 10, Carapaz also moves into the top ten, and Enric Mas produces the most spectacular rise of all.