Cycling World Cup

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The Cycling World Cup was a competition created by the UCI in 1989 with the aim of rewarding the road cyclist who throughout the year has obtained the best results in several of the races a day more important: the five "monuments" and another five to eight (depending on the edition) high-level classics.

The provisional World Cup leader wore a white jersey with a vertical rainbow stripe, known as the arcobaleno maglia, during the World Cup events.

The UCI created a new competition called the UCI ProTour that combines one-day races, weekly races and the Grand Tours, thus eliminating the World Cup since 2005.

There are also other Cycling World Cups referring to other cycling modalities or specialties.

Racing

The races that were part of the World Cup during all its years of celebration (1989-2004) were the following:

• Milan-Sanremo
• Tour de Flandes
• Paris-Roubaix
• Liège-Bastoña-Lieja
• Amstel Gold Race
• San Sebastian Classic
• Zurich Championship
• Paris-Tours
• Giro de Lombardy

In addition, other races took part, only during some editions:

• Wincanton Classic (1989-1997)
• G. P. de la Libération (1989-1991)
• Grand Prize of the Americas (1989-1992)
• United Nations Grand Prix (1990-1993)
• Trofeo Baracchi (1991)
• Rund um den Henninger-Turm (1995)
• Japan Cup (1996)
• HEW Cyclassics (1998-2004)

Honours of Prizes

Single

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1989	Sean Kelly.	Tony Rominger	Rolf Sørensen
1990	Gianni Bugno	Rudy Dhaenens	Sean Kelly.
1991	Maurizio Fondriest	Laurent Jalabert	Rolf Sørensen
1992	Olaf Ludwig	Tony Rominger	Davide Cassani
1993	Maurizio Fondriest	Johan Museeuw	Maximilian Sciandri
1994	Gianluca Bortolami	Johan Museeuw	Andréi Chmil
1995	Johan Museeuw	Andréi Chmil	Mauro Gianetti
1996	Johan Museeuw	Andrea Ferrigato	Michele Bartoli
1997	Michele Bartoli	Rolf Sørensen	Andrea Tafi
1998	Michele Bartoli	Léon van Bon	Andrea Tafi
1999	Andréi Chmil	Michael Boogerd	Frank Vandenbroucke
2000	Erik Zabel	Andréi Chmil	Francesco Casagrande
2001	Erik Dekker	Erik Zabel	Romāns Vainšteins
2002	Paolo Bettini	Johan Museeuw	Michele Bartoli
2003	Paolo Bettini	Michael Boogerd	Peter Van Petegem
2004	Paolo Bettini	Davide Rebellin	Óscar Freire

By teams

Edition	Equipment
1989	PDM
1990	PDM
1991	Panasonic
1992	Panasonic
1993	GB-MG Maglificio
1994	GB-MG Maglificio
1995	Mapei-GB
1996	Mapei-GB
1997	Française des Jeux
1998	Mapei-Bricobi
1999	Rabobank
2000	Mapei
2001	Rabobank
2002	Mapei-Quick Step
2003	Saeco
2004	T-Mobile

Honours of honors by country

Country	Victorias
ItalyItaly	9
BelgiumBelgium	3
GermanyGermany	2
Ireland	1
NetherlandsNetherlands	1

Scoring system

Single

The following scoring system was applied to each of the races:

Any cyclist from any team could obtain points, although in order to be in the final classification, more than half of the qualifying races had to be finished, eliminating the riders who did not meet this requirement at the end of the last race. In the event of a tie, the one that obtained the most 1st or 2nd or 3rd... places would be ahead.

By teams

This classification was the sum of the three best riders of each team in the final individual classification divided by three and omitting the decimal number obtained in said operation. As in the individual classification, the one who obtained the most 1st or 2nd or 3rd... places would be ahead.