The UCI published the majority of the 2025 road calendar this week confirming the addition of a new men's and women's WorldTour event in Denmark called the Copenhagen Sprint.
The Women's WorldTour will remain at 30 events for next season, while the Men's WorldTour will consist of 36 events. Both series begin with the Tour Down Under and run through the Tour of Guangxi.
The new Copenhagen Sprint events will take place on June 21, 2025, with a 160-kilometre race from the Viking Museum in Roskilde to the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen with three local 10km circuits for women and on June 22 there will be a 230km route with five local circuits for men.
The addition makes up for the loss of the Ronde van Drenthe and the lead-up Drentse 8 van Westerveld event. The organisers announced in July they would end after 65 years. The area will still host a charity recreational cycling event, but the pro race ended due to the loss of police escorts, increased regulatory restrictions and rising costs.
The Women's WorldTour also lost the RideLondon Classique, which was cancelled after the UCI moved its date from late May to early June because of a conflict with the Vuelta a Burgos Femeninas.
The women's Tour de Romandie has been reduced to three days and will be held from August 15-17 rather than in September, lining the race up with the Tour of Scandinavia, which is due to return to the Women's WorldTour after being postponed this year, from August 19 to 24.
Other changes to the calendar include a shift in the Spring Classics, with the men's and women's Brabantse Pijl being shifted from the Wednesday before the Amstel Gold Race to Friday, April 18.
Next year's edition of the Amstel Gold Race marks the first year it will be organised by Flanders Classics, which also puts on Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, the Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs, Ronde van Limburg and Brabantse Pijl.
The UCI ProSeries expanded to include the Women's Down Under Classic one-day race on January 26, previously a criterium, the Vuelta CV Femeninas, GP Oetingen, and women's Veenendaal-Veenendaal - all previously ranked 1.1,
The 4 Days of Dunkirk (4 Jours de Dunkerque) has been split into a one-day ProSeries Classique Dunquerke on May 13 before a five-day ProSeries stage race.
