Points were awarded to all eligible riders at each race.[2] The points awarded are according to the same scale for all categories, but only the top 25 riders receive points rather than the top 50. The top ten finishers received points according to the following table:
Points awarded
Position
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Elite riders
40
30
25
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
Riders finishing in positions 11 to 25 also received points, going down from 15 points for 11th place by one point per place to 1 point for 25th place.
Note that the points given here are entirely different from the UCI ranking points, which are distributed according to a different scale and determine starting order in races, but have no impact on World Cup standings.
Race Categories
There were races in 5 categories Elite Men, Elite Women, Under-23 Men, Junior Men and Junior Women. There was no separate race for Under-23 Women but the riders in this category took part in the Elite Women race. There were separate classification in all 6 above categories.
Calendar
In total there were 11 World Cup events held during the season. Originally there were 12 World Cup events planned but the third round race in Sardinia was cancelled due to the bad weather.
[1][3][4][5] All events included Elite Women and Elite Men races, but only 6 of the 11 events included an Under-23 or Junior race.
Compared to the previous editions some changes to the calendar and format of the World Cup were announced by UCI. Most notably, the number of races were reduced from 14 to 12 to allow for a more compact season. Moreover UCI assigned protected event status to some of the events which meant that UCI would not sanction any other international cyclo-cross event during the weekend in which a protected event was held.[6][7]
There was no separate race for Under-23 Women. The riders in this age category competed in the Elite Women race, and received World Cup points based on the standing in the combined Elite/Under-23 race. So for example finishing first among the Under-23 riders but fifth in the combined Elite/Under-23 classification would give not 40 but 20 points.
