photo credit @ Team Sky
With ten WorldTour races already finished this season, Ritchie Porte remains at top of the individual rankings as the only rider to have accumulated more than 300 points.
Meanwhile, John Degenkolb’s recent Paris-Roubaix victory, moved the German rider up into third place, while this month’s Tour of Flanders winner, Alexander Kristoff, holds onto second place.
In the meantime, last week’s Vuelta al Pais Vasco winner, Joaquim Rodriguez, gave his Katusha team a boost in the overall standings, which now occupies third spot.
photo credit @ team Katusha
The tally so far, puts Porte at 3003 point, with Kristoff at 237, followed by Degenkold at 232.
Following on Porte’s success, as well as Geraint Thomas’ E3 Harelbeke victory and Gent–Wevelgem podium finish, to include Sergio Henao’s second place finish in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Team Sky now sits at the top of the WorldTour team rankings.
As result of their early season success at the Tour Down Under in January, Australia holds the most points in the national standings with – 588, with Spain in second with 457 points, followed by the Netherlands (435 points) and Colombia (428 points).
The next WorldTour events are the Ardennes Classics, starting with the Amstel Gold race on Sunday.
UCI WorldTour standings
1 Richie Porte (AUS) Team Sky 303 pts 2 Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Team Katusha 237 3 John Degenkolb (GER) Giant-Alpecin 232 4 Geraint Thomas (GBR) Team Sky 184 5 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team 168 6 Zdenek Štybar (CZE) Etixx-Quick Step 152 7 Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) BMC Racing Team 148 8 Niki Terpstra (NED) Etixx-Quick Step 140 9 Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA) Ag2r-La Mondiale 136 10 Peter Sagan (SVK) Tinkoff-Saxo 136 11 Rigoberto Urán (COL) Etixx-Quick Step 133 12 Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) Team Katusha 120 13 Michal Kwiatkowski (POL) Etixx-Quick Step 115 14 Rohan Dennis (AUS) BMC Racing Team 114 15 Alberto Contador (ESP) Tinkoff-Saxo 114 16 Lars Boom (NED) Astana 101 17 Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Movistar Team 98 18 Rui Costa (POR) Lampre-Merida 94 19 Michael Matthews (AUS) Orica-GreenEdge 89 20 Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek Factory Racing 88 21 Sergio Henao (COL) Team Sky 86 22 Luca Paolini (ITA) Team Katusha 80 23 Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha 78 24 Cadel Evans (AUS) BMC Racing Team 76 25 Jon Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team 73
Teams
1 Team Sky 629 pts 2 Etixx-Quick Step 590 3 Team Katusha 527 4 Movistar Team 423 5 BMC Racing Team 380 6 Giant-Alpecin 302 7 Tinkoff-Saxo 278 8 Orica-GreenEdge 236 9 Astana 221 10 Lampre-Merida 217 11 Lotto-Soudal 214 12 Ag2r-La Mondiale 139 13 Trek Factory Racing 138 14 IAM Cycling 74 15 FDJ 69 16 LottoNL-Jumbo 68 17 Cannondale-Garmin 19
Nations
1 Australia 588 pts 2 Spain 457 3 Netherlands 435 4 Colombia 428 5 Italy 359 6 Belgium 346 7 Great Britain 266 8 Germany 241 9 Norway 237 10 Czech Republic 156 11 Slovakia 136 12 France 134 13 Poland 118 14 Switzerland 97 15 Portugal 94 16 Slovenia 78 17 Denmark 55 18 South Africa 39 19 Russia 23 20 New Zealand 14
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