TOP CYCLING EVENTS

  • TOUR DE FRANCE:  Usually held in the month of June/July the current 107th year edition that was slated to start on June 27 from Nice France  featuring 22 professional teams  has now been postponed.  The “Grande Boucle”, as the Tour is known in France, The Tour  rakes in upwards of Euro 250 million in sponsorship and TV rights for the sponsors.  

  • GIRO D'ITALIA: The Italian cycling mega event also known as Giro, is  slated for October 3-25 , 2020. It is planned to be held in 18 stages.  .
    VUELTA A ESPANA :  Vuelta a España  (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbwelta a esˈpaɲa]; English: Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race. Its 75th edition is slated for between  3 October and 25 October 2020. 
    UCI ROAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:  The  1921 vintage annual world championships of the Union Cycliste Internationale is planned to be held between September 20 to 27, 2020. 

    • PARIS-ROUBAIX: The 2020 Paris–Roubaix cycling event  was postponed to 25 October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the 118th edition of Paris–Roubaix and it will be the 23rd event of the 2020 UCI World Tour

Like most top sports cycling also has its own top shot events which are worth millions of dollars in business for the sponsors, event managers and also the champion cyclists.  Listed below are the  top events in the world of cycling even though like Formula one racing for cars, cycling sporting events are scattered around the world. Our attempts would be to bring together some of these events and also update  with reviews and photos of some of these. We will also be talking of top rally circuits and also profiling some cycling champions in this section.  

  • Tour de France   

  • The launch of the 1903 vintage Tour de France Cycle City" label triggered a wave of interest from first-rate applicants. All 80 towns and cities in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and even Ireland that submitted applications met the assessment criteria and were granted labels of the ranks corresponding to the applications. The 2021 ranking is being unveiled in the early days of "Mai à Vélo", a campaign in which the municipalities of France redouble their efforts to popularise cycling..  For more details follow the official  Tour de France website 

  • Giro d'Italia 2021
    Slovakia's Peter Sagan wins stage 10, Egan Bernal retains leader's jersey gb      .Sagan's Bora-Hansgrohe team dominated the final 50km of the 140km race setting a pace to  out rival  teams  before the finale, where the 31-year-old  went  ahead   for the win. According to AFP The peloton's highest paid rider Peter Sagan, who reportedly earns 5.5 million euros ($6.68 million) a year, won a stage of the Giro on his first appearance here in 2020 and said he will target the sprint points jersey after his second win.

  • UCI Road World Championships 

  • Vuelta a Espana

  • Paris-Roubaix 

Women Road Biking

ASIAN TOP CYCLING EVENTS

The Dubai UAE based   Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC), a non-profit-making organization founded in 1962, is the association of the national cycling federations (NFs) for Asia. The Association has listed the following events even though the current Pandemic has hit almost all the events till date. These have been either postponed or cancelled. 


  • (April, Uzbakistan)Asian Road Cycling Championships


  • Japan Cup Cycle Road Race (October, Tokyo)


  • Japan Cup Criterium 


  • Tour of Guangxi Women's WorldTour (October, China) 


  • Oita Ikoinomachi Criterium (october, Japan) 


  • Tour of Taihou Lake (october, China) 

  • Jelajah Malaysia  (Malaysia, October) 


  • Japan Cup Criteriam  (October, Japan)


  • Gree-Tour Guanxi (October, China) 


  • Oita Urban Classic (October, Japan) 


  • Tour of Almaty (Kazahastan September) 


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Road Biking

INDIAN TOP CYCLING EVENTS

 Cycling Federation of India (CFI) has listed the following events for 2020

  1. Track Asia Cup, International event at IG Sports Complex, New Delhi from 30th Oct. to 1st Nov. 2020

  2. 72nd Senior, 49th Junior & 35th Sub-Junior National Track Cycling Championship – Nov./Dec. 2020 (date to be announced)

  3. 25th Senior, Junior & Sub-Junior National Road Cycling Championships – Nov./ Dec. 2020 (Date to be announced)

  4. 17th Senior, Junior & Sub-Junior National Mountain Bike Cycling Championships  – March 2021 (Date to be announced)