Following its third place finish in the Team Time Trial event at the World Championships in Richmond, Virginia yesterday, Team Movistar has moved back up into the overall UCI WorldTour rankings.
The Spanish team displaced Katusha, who finished a disappointing 18th in the event, and now lead by 33 points.
Despite Team Sky’s poor placing yesterday, their ninth place finish was enough to keep them in third spot in the WorldTour rankings.
In addition, Etixx-QuickStep also managed to hold onto their fourth place position.
Meanwhile, as a result of their victory yesterday, BMC Racing moved up from seventh to fifth place in the rankings, subsequently knocking Tinkoff-Saxo from their spot, after crashing and finishing last in the Team Time Trial.
The outcome of next month’s Il Lombardia, will decide the finally WorldTour ranking for this season.
WorldTour team’s rankings 1 Movistar Team 1559 pts 2 Team Katusha 1526 3 Team Sky 1334 4 Etixx – Quick-Step 1158 5 BMC Racing Team 1010 6 Astana Pro Team 1006 7 Tinkoff-Saxo 929 8 Orica GreenEdge 825 9 Lotto Soudal 802 10 Team Giant-Alpecin 769 11 AG2R La Mondiale 587 12 Lampre-Merida 566 13 Trek Factory Racing 529 14 Team LottoNL-Jumbo 485 15 FDJ.fr 369 16 Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 340 17 IAM Cycling 189
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