Our squad continues its run as one of the world’s best teams.
It has been confirmed that Soudal Quick-Step has finished third in the 2024 UCI World Tour Rankings, cementing our place as one of the best men’s cycling teams in the world, at the end of a season which saw our riders rack up a total of 34 wins in 16 different countries.
The UCI ranking is based on the results gained by World Tour squads at qualifying races, throughout the year. The season got underway at the Tour Down Under in January, where Julian Alaphilippe’s 6th place on the general classification kick-started our quest for ranking points, and the year was sprinkled with many captivating and memorable moments from there on.
The team’s first win of the year was as early as 25th January, when Paul Magnier took an impressive victory at Trofeo Ses Salines-Felanitx, a result that would kick-start an impressive season for the rookie, where he would win five races for our team. This made Magnier our third most successful rider of the season, behind Tim Merlier and Remco Evenepoel, who would take 16 and 9 individual wins respectively.
Our hunt to cement our place continued right up until the final event of the season, the Japan Cup, where Ilan Van Wilder’s runner-up in the race secured our team’s third place in the final UCI World Tour standings.
Speaking of the achievement, Soudal Quick-Step CEO Patrick Lefevere said: “We are very proud of our 3rd place finish in the UCI World Tour Rankings. Over many years we have strived to build a squad that is consistent throughout the whole cycling season, which takes a very strong team effort from everyone in the organisation, and their hard work is shown by our place in the final classification. We have also shown that we have not just finished high in the rankings just once, but consistently throughout many years, which is not easy to do over a long period of time, and for that I congratulate everyone.”
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