Here’s the pro cycling calendar for 2025, free to download for your diary or phone.
It’s packed with all the men’s and women’s pro road races. So whether you’re scouting for that late season 1.Pro race to score points or just need to book sofa time or schedule a work “meeting”, here it is in a user-friendly format.
You can view the calendar on the page here or at inrng.com/calendar all year.
You can also download it for your phone, desktop organiser etc.
The best way is to subscribe so that all updates are quietly pushed out automatically to your diary. Here is the iCal link to copy-paste into your device:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/da1ac3526a451f1a98c19cfff28d3142692ea9b2f9f5fcf43d09d642d91b5c4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
By the way it’s a Google service, you’re not downloading anything from a random blog. Google/Android users can click on Google Calendar link on the calendar frame above.
For more tech and suggestions for how to subscribe across different devices, see inrng.com/calendar.
What’s Different?
The headline change is the arrival of the Copenhagen Sprint in late June, a new World Tour race for men and women. It signals the vast popularity of cycling in Denmark thanks to Jonas Vingegaard and his compatriots. Otherwise there are not any big changes.
The Giro d’Italia starts on a Friday, as planned to accommodate the Albania grande partenza. The Route d’Occitanie is back after an Olympics-imposed hiatus and the one-day Andorra Morabanc Classica is there with firmer plans to make it happen. The one-day Muscat classic in Oman’s capital is on the UCI calendar… but not the Tour of Oman, presumably the stage race will be added but it’s notable by absence. The Tour Colombia is not going ahead. There have been doubts about the Volta a Valenciana but the organisers have committed today to the race as way to show the region can be open after devastating floods. The Trans-Himalaya race in China gets promoted from 2.2 to 2.1.
Plenty of the quirks and charms remain. The Four Days of Dunkerque no longer lasts six days it shrinks to five… but there’s also the Classic Dunkerque 1.Pro race on the eve of the stage race. So they’ve cut the stage race by a day and added a one-day event alongside which will brings more UCI points. The winner of the new classic takes 200 points instead of 20 for a stage, helpful in the third year of three year promotion-relegation cycle.
New classic? Yes, it’s remarkable how many new one day events are branded as classics. Elsewherethe growth in the women’s calendar is notable but so is the nomenclature with many “Ladies” events, although there are plenty of feminina, femmes and donne suffixes too. Or see the jumbled-sounding “Women Cycling Pro Costa de Almería” race, but it’s good to have it on the calendar.
As ever the relatively easy part is applying for inclusion on the UCI’s international calendar, the hard part is all the work on the ground from sponsorship to safety and some events will fall by the wayside between now and the due date.
Thank you for your efforts INRNG. Much appreciated.
Thanks, it’s useful for me so happy to share.
Huge work ahead in Valencia. Of course most of the province and the city is fine and you can just set a couple of strategic places where you’re using the area which endured the worst floods. After all the TDF went through zones which had literally crumbled down the valley after the Emilia Romagna floods. Yet the social-human impact of the Valencia flood was so much worse. Casualties well over two hundreds essentially in a single day are worse than any terroristic attack ever suffered by Spain – and they sure had a couple (or three, or four…) of big ones. Wasn’t it for Tenerife this would also be worse than any train or airplane disaster in Spanish history.
On a different level, 120,000 damaged cars for an estimated total value of over 2 billions were instantly declared «junk» by Royal Decree in order to be disposed without needing much burocracy. You still see them upside down in the fields or piled up in long rows 5-cars high.
The cost for the State is going to go well over the already shocking amount needed to rescue the cracking banks after 2009.
Welcome to late capitalism.
Thanks for the calendar link and for all your other posts and info during the year. Much appreciated!
Thanks for this.
They really have to stop calling women’s races “ladies’ races”. I guess non-native speakers don’t realise that this is considered sexist these days?
To understand how absurd it sounds, imagine if a race for males was called the “gentlemen’s race”.
I guess they have to demonstrate a level of class and decorum before they’re allowed to enter; “we don’t want any riff-raff in our race, only real ladies”! And the gentlemen’s race would be for the upper classes only…😂
Wimbledon still refers to the competitions as ladies’ singles/doubles/wheelchair etc and gentlemen’s.
Ironically, the escalation in the cost of cycling means that even tennis is now a more accessible sport for middle and working class youth than cycling.
Well “Lotto-Destiny Ladies” would like a word! To my ears, “ladies” sounds antiquated, not necessarily sexist. I guess it depends on the context (also very much on the tone and inflection).
I haven’t seen a single race name with ‘Ladies’ from an English speaking country, so my guess is that the practice of translating race names is the real problem.
This should stop immediately. Those who are still monolingual are not really the target market for international cycling races.
Well, in England, “ladies” is still very much a part of daily parlance, even among women. As I said, the tone and inflection make a world of difference. It’s really clear when it is being used in a sexist or condescending manner. In the US, it hasn’t been in everyday use for a few generations.
None of the cycling races with ‘Ladies’ in the name are in England though.
Aside from Wimbledon where the equivalent ‘Gentlemen’ is also used, sport in England largely uses ‘Women’ to refer to women, including with the Women’s Tour of Britain.
Yes, I’ll concede your point. Even the Women’s Super League teams that used to be “Ladies” (Aston Villa Ladies, for example) have all changed to “Women’s” (although this shift is relatively recent, within the last five years or so).
In the UK, I never hear anyone use the term ‘ladies’, other than my octogenarian parents.
(Wimbledon is wilfully anachronistic.)
Try walking into your average office and saying, ‘Morning, ladies’. See what kind of response you get.
The women, at the very least, would immediately note you down as a sexist.
Not entirely convinced that’s true, at least not everywhere. As someone mentioned above, it’s probably antiquated but I wouldn’t impugn someone’s intentions and presume them as being sexist if they said that, anymore than I would if someone said, “Morning gents.” (male or female).
I couldn’t get the “monolingual” point. What do you mean with monolingual? A huge part of the actually sport-consuming “monolingual” public is really in the USA and UK and cycling has been sacrificing a lot to enter those market: was it a mistake because all those “monolingual” people are not “really the target market”? In the USA it’s now less of a thing only because the number of Spanish-speaking families is on the up.
If you look around, you’ll discover that “monolinguism” is not a thing in many African and Asian countries.
I think the point being made was about the anglicization of races, to pander to the anglo ‘market’ (who are pretty much monolingual). This seems to me to dilute the character of the race; the Giro seems to be doing this, and it does seem bizarre for Belgian races to do so.
I agree with you on the perspective you sketch out here, but I’m not sure if it’s exactly what Dave’s comment was actually about.
Thank you!
Thanks for all of your articles, IR.
Could you say where that top photo was taken? Just gives me the willies seeing that narrow road and sheer drop-off on a downhill stretch of pavement.
PS. Looks a bit like Gorge de la Nesque to me…
It’s the Col du Turini, west side and heading towards La Bollène-Vésubie, which you can see in the distance. I love these roads cut into the cliffs, could spend hours trying to pick the best ones.
Thanks for the info about the photo and Col du Turini. Have ridden from Vence to Castellane but not to the northeast of Nice. Looks like a good place for a vacation, if I can get myself out of the Provence and Mt Ventoux gravitational pull.
A lot of good choices in the area, you’ll have got a sense of the place from the roads between Vence and Castellane. It’s less windy than Ventoux and Rhone but access can be harder.
Or if you still want Ventoux, try the Drôme area to the north-east like Rémuzat, Chalancon for great roads but less explored by cyclists who often aim for Bédoin, Sault, Buis-les-Baronnies etc; or visit for the day for some new roads.
Is the tour of leuven memorial Jef Scherens being held next year? Seen two race calendars now and it’s not on either
No sign of it on the UCI calendar. Events can and will still be added, just as others will get deleted, especially all the small 1.1 races which can come and go, sometimes the races exist but on the Belgium calendar as a 1.2 or lower etc.