UCI WorldTour Women's Rider Rankings 2026 Final: Demi Vollering dominates, Paula Blasi storms into top three as Ferrand-Prévot finishes 34th
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Demi Vollering ends the 2026 season as the undisputed world number one in the final UCI women's individual rankings, finishing almost 4,000 points clear of her nearest rival. Kasia Niewiadoma takes second place, while Paula Blasi completes the podium ahead of several of women's cycling's biggest established stars.
Vollering finishes the year on 9,330 points, a remarkable 3,670 clear of Niewiadoma on 5,660. The FDJ United - SUEZ leader won both the Giro d'Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes, alongside a spring campaign that brought victories at the Tour of Flanders, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
She then added her first elite road race world title in Montréal, beating Niewiadoma in a dramatic two-up sprint, with Elisa Longo Borghini taking bronze. Remarkably, Vollering's final points tally stands just 1.8 points below Tadej Pogacar's winning total in the men's standings.
Niewiadoma's second place reflects her consistency across the season, even if victories proved harder to secure. The Polish rider finished runner-up at the Tour de France Femmes, where she won the stage to Mont Ventoux, before adding World Championship silver. She also finished second at Strade Bianche, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Amstel Gold Race.
Demi Vollering, Kasia Niewiadoma and Elisa Longo Borghini on the final podium at the 2026 Tour de France Femmes
Paula Blasi's breakthrough puts her among cycling's elite
Paula Blasi finishes third on 5,201.3 points after a breakthrough season that included victories at Amstel Gold Race and the Vuelta Femenina. The 23-year-old Spaniard secured the latter by overturning Anna van der Breggen's advantage on the final climb of the Angliru, finishing second on the stage to claim her first Grand Tour title.
Blasi subsequently finished fifth at the Tour de France Femmes and will take that form into 2027 with Movistar Team, following her high-profile departure from UAE Team L'IMAD.
Her UAE teammate Longo Borghini finishes fourth on 5,109.3 points, having won the UAE Tour Women and completed the Tour de France Femmes podium. The pair were central to UAE's success in the team rankings, where the squad overtook Vollering's FDJ United - SUEZ in the final week of racing to finish first by just 262.66 points.
Lorena Wiebes completes the individual top five with 4,935 points. The Team SD Worx - Protime sprinter recorded 24 victories during 2026, including two Tour de France Femmes stages and a clean sweep of all three stages and the overall classification at the Tour of Chongming Island.
Van der Breggen and Lotte Kopecky occupy sixth and seventh, giving SD Worx three riders inside the top seven. World time trial champion Marlen Reusser finishes eighth, while Tour de France Femmes mountains classification winner Puck Pieterse takes ninth and Paris-Roubaix Femmes winner Franziska Koch rounds out the top ten.
Ferrand-Prévot and Marianne Vos finish outside the top 30
Further down the standings, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot ends a difficult 2026 season in 34th place with 1,462 points. Having won the Tour de France Femmes in 2025, the Frenchwoman struggled during her title defence and abandoned the race through illness before eventually ending her season early.
Her Team Visma | Lease a Bike teammate Marianne Vos finishes 38th on 1,267 points, despite coming agonisingly close to another Paris-Roubaix Femmes victory in April, when she was beaten in the Roubaix velodrome by Koch.
Among the younger riders, Welsh talent Zoe Bäckstedt finishes 31st with 1,676 points after taking silver behind Reusser in the elite World Championship time trial. Cat Ferguson occupies 44th and Marion Bunel finishes 46th, while reigning cyclocross world champion Lucinda Brand closes her road season in 76th place with 663 points.
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Final UCI women's rider rankings 2026: Top 100
| Position | Rider | Team | Points |
| 1 | Demi Vollering | FDJ United - SUEZ | 9,330 |
| 2 | Kasia Niewiadoma | CANYON//SRAM | 5,660 |
| 3 | Paula Blasi | UAE Team L'IMAD | 5,201.3 |
| 4 | Elisa Longo Borghini | UAE Team L'IMAD | 5,109.3 |
| 5 | Lorena Wiebes | Team SD Worx - Protime | 4,935 |
| 6 | Anna van der Breggen | Team SD Worx - Protime | 4,054 |
| 7 | Lotte Kopecky | Team SD Worx - Protime | 3,690 |
| 8 | Marlen Reusser | Movistar Team | 3,669.7 |
| 9 | Puck Pieterse | Fenix-Premier Tech | 3,424 |
| 10 | Franziska Koch | FDJ United - SUEZ | 3,278.7 |
| 11 | Elisa Balsamo | Lidl - Trek | 3,163 |
| 12 | Noemi Rüegg | EF Education-Oatly | 3,134.7 |
| 13 | Antonia Niedermaier | CANYON//SRAM | 3,106.7 |
| 14 | Dominika Włodarczyk | UAE Team L'IMAD | 2,864 |
| 15 | Charlotte Kool | Fenix-Premier Tech | 2,683 |
| 16 | Juliette Berthet | FDJ United - SUEZ | 2,550.7 |
| 17 | Karlijn Swinkels | UAE Team L'IMAD | 2,549 |
| 18 | Cédrine Kerbaol | EF Education-Oatly | 2,447.7 |
| 19 | Kim Le Court-Pienaar | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 2,248 |
| 20 | Lara Gillespie | UAE Team L'IMAD | 2,244 |
| 21 | Sarah Van Dam | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 2,181 |
| 22 | Célia Gery | FDJ United - SUEZ | 2,110 |
| 23 | Femke de Vries | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 2,064 |
| 24 | Mischa Bredewold | Team SD Worx - Protime | 2,014 |
| 25 | Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini | UAE Team L'IMAD | 1,994 |
| 26 | Niamh Fisher-Black | Lidl - Trek | 1,759 |
| 27 | Usoa Ostolaza | Laboral Kutxa - Fundación Euskadi | 1,748 |
| 28 | Isabella Holmgren | Lidl - Trek | 1,706 |
| 29 | Monica Trinca Colonel | Liv AlUla Jayco | 1,693.3 |
| 30 | Liane Lippert | Movistar Team | 1,679 |
| 31 | Zoe Bäckstedt | CANYON//SRAM | 1,676 |
| 32 | Shari Bossuyt | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 1,613 |
| 33 | Chiara Consonni | CANYON//SRAM | 1,533 |
| 34 | Pauline Ferrand-Prévot | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 1,462 |
| 35 | Nienke Veenhoven | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 1,423 |
| 36 | Lauren Dickson | FDJ United - SUEZ | 1,343 |
| 37 | Fleur Moors | Lidl - Trek | 1,275 |
| 38 | Marianne Vos | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 1,267 |
| 39 | Elise Chabbey | FDJ United - SUEZ | 1,255 |
| 40 | Maeva Squiban | UAE Team L'IMAD | 1,226.3 |
| 41 | Magdeleine Vallieres | EF Education-Oatly | 1,209 |
| 42 | Évita Muzic | FDJ United - SUEZ | 1,118 |
| 43 | Maggie Coles-Lyster | Human Powered Health | 1,117 |
| 44 | Cat Ferguson | Movistar Team | 1,111 |
| 45 | Yara Kastelijn | Fenix-Premier Tech | 1,109 |
| 46 | Marion Bunel | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 1,093 |
| 47 | Mavi García | UAE Team L'IMAD | 1,075 |
| 48 | Mireia Benito | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 1,069.3 |
| 49 | Letizia Paternoster | Liv AlUla Jayco | 1,059 |
| 50 | Ally Wollaston | FDJ United - SUEZ | 1,015 |
| 51 | Silvia Persico | UAE Team L'IMAD | 1,007 |
| 52 | Nienke Vinke | Team SD Worx - Protime | 991 |
| 53 | Lieke Nooijen | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 986 |
| 54 | Marta Lach | Team SD Worx - Protime | 909 |
| 55 | Letizia Borghesi | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 900 |
| 56 | Urška Žigart | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 896 |
| 57 | Riejanne Markus | Lidl - Trek | 894 |
| 58 | Steffi Häberlin | Team SD Worx - Protime | 877 |
| 59 | Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset | Uno-X Mobility | 868.3 |
| 60 | Eline Jansen | VolkerWessels Cycling Team | 860 |
| 61 | Jasmin Liechti | NEXETIS | 817.7 |
| 62 | Thalita de Jong | Human Powered Health | 789 |
| 63 | Mackenzie Coupland | Liv AlUla Jayco | 786 |
| 64 | Lonneke Uneken | VolkerWessels Cycling Team | 783 |
| 65 | Pfeiffer Georgi | Team Picnic PostNL | 782 |
| 66 | Kathrin Schweinberger | Human Powered Health | 780 |
| 67 | Caroline Andersson | Liv AlUla Jayco | 754 |
| 68 | Mie Bjørndal Ottestad | Uno-X Mobility | 751 |
| 69 | Josie Nelson | Team Picnic PostNL | 748 |
| 70 | Clara Copponi | Lidl - Trek | 747 |
| 71 | Lily Williams | Human Powered Health | 721 |
| 72 | Nina Berton | EF Education-Oatly | 713.3 |
| 73 | Lore De Schepper | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 711 |
| 74 | Femke Markus | Team SD Worx - Protime | 709 |
| 75 | Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | 706 |
| 76 | Lucinda Brand | Lidl - Trek | 663 |
| 77 | Georgia Baker | Liv AlUla Jayco | 662 |
| 78 | Viktória Chladoňová | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 660 |
| 79 | Megan Jastrab | UAE Team L'IMAD | 646 |
| 80 | Loes Adegeest | Lidl - Trek | 643 |
| 81 | Linda Zanetti | Uno-X Mobility | 626 |
| 82 | Catalina Anais Soto | Laboral Kutxa - Fundación Euskadi | 616 |
| 83 | Hao Zhang | XDS China Women Team | 612.3 |
| 84 | Yanina Kuskova | Queen Sport | 603 |
| 85 | Ruby Roseman-Gannon | Liv AlUla Jayco | 594 |
| 86 | Shirin van Anrooij | Lidl - Trek | 571 |
| 87 | Lotte Claes | Fenix-Premier Tech | 561 |
| 88 | Yuliia Biriukova | Laboral Kutxa - Fundación Euskadi | 555.7 |
| 89 | Millie Couzens | Fenix-Premier Tech | 552 |
| 90 | Nadia Gontova | Liv AlUla Jayco | 552 |
| 91 | Arlenis Sierra | Movistar Team | 548 |
| 92 | Clémence Latimier | Ma Petite Entreprise | 536 |
| 93 | Amalie Dideriksen | Cofidis Women Team | 525 |
| 94 | Ema Comte | Cofidis Women Team | 522 |
| 95 | Arianna Fidanza | Laboral Kutxa - Fundación Euskadi | 520 |
| 96 | Nina Buijsman | Human Powered Health | 519 |
| 97 | Talia Appleton | Liv AlUla Jayco | 506 |
| 98 | Valentina Cavallar | Team SD Worx - Protime | 504 |
| 99 | Sandrine Tas | Lotto Intermarché Ladies | 496 |
| 100 | Alessia Vigilia | Uno-X Mobility | 490.3 |
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Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He regularly contributes to DartsNews.com and CyclingUpToDate.com, where he covers professional cycling and darts. In cycling, his work includes liveblogs from major races, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España, alongside race reports and analysis. He has also conducted interviews with professional riders.
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