The UCI road cycling ranking updates after every race, but a results table only shows you a single snapshot. The interactive chart below shows the full career of all riders (ever reached the top 400): select riders and a date range, and see how their positions (compared to others) rose and fell over time.

Methodology

What this chart shows
Riders tracked month by month through the individual UCI World Ranking: rank and points. Men and women have separate rankings and pages, since a rank only means something within its own field. All figures are exactly as published by the UCI.

How the ranking works
Points come from races on the UCI International Road Calendar; bigger races pay more. The ranking runs on a rolling 52-week window: when a race returns, last year’s points are replaced by the new result. Some points are shared (e.g. team time trials), which is why totals can contain decimals.

Data
Official UCI DataRide database. The UCI publishes weekly; we use one snapshot per calendar month (the most recent) and refresh monthly.

What is and isn’t in the chart

• Period: January 2016 onwards.
• Cut-off: top 400 per ranking; outside it, no data point.
• Dashed line: rider missing for more than one month.
• Matching: by surname and first given name; a name change could split one history in two.

Stat cards

• Current: latest value in the selected period.
• Best in period: best rank or highest points, with the month.
• Average in period: mean of months the rider appears — months outside the top 400 are missing, so the average flatters riders who dropped out.
• Change over period: last minus first value.
• Team changes: how often the listed team differs from the previous month.
• Career ended: absent from the top 400 for more than two months — an automatic signal, not a confirmed retirement.
• Similar (current / at peak): the four riders with the closest points total, today or at the selected rider’s peak month.

Limitations
Monthly snapshots can miss short peaks within a month; the top-400 cut-off hides everything below it.

Sources
UCI DataRide (dataride.uci.ch).