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Best 1 Tour de France

Tour de France is a three-week French Grand Tour first held in 1903, noted as cycling's best-known stage race and run each July.

2 Paris-Roubaix

Paris-Roubaix is a French one-day Monument first run in 1896, famous for rough cobbled sectors and its finish in the Roubaix velodrome.

3 Ronde van Vlaanderen

Ronde van Vlaanderen is Belgium's Tour of Flanders, a one-day Monument first held in 1913 and famed for short cobbled climbs.

4 UCI Road World Championships

The UCI Road World Championships are cycling's annual road worlds, first organized by the UCI in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1921.

5 Paris-Brest-Paris

Paris-Brest-Paris is a French long-distance cycling event first held in 1891, now a 1,200 km randonnée run every four years.

6 Giro d'Italia

Giro d'Italia is Italy's three-week Grand Tour, first held in 1909 by La Gazzetta dello Sport and known for its pink leader's jersey.

7 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are cycling's annual MTB worlds, first held under UCI sanction in 1990 at Durango, Colorado.

8 UCI Track World Championships

The UCI Track World Championships are cycling's annual track world titles, first held in Chicago in 1893 and awarding rainbow jerseys.

9 Cape Epic
Cape Epic

Cape Epic is an eight-day mountain-bike stage race in South Africa, first staged in 2004 and classified hors categorie by the UCI.

10 Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Liège-Bastogne-Liège is a Belgian one-day Monument first held in 1892, nicknamed La Doyenne as one of cycling's oldest classics.

11 Tour Divide

The Tour Divide is a self-supported mountain-bike race from Banff to the U.S.-Mexico border, following the 2,745-mile Great Divide route.

12 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

The UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships are the annual cyclo-cross worlds, first held in Paris in 1950 and awarding rainbow jerseys.

13 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is ASO's women's Tour de France, launched in 2022 as an eight-stage UCI Women's WorldTour race.

14 Strade Bianche

Strade Bianche is an Italian one-day race launched in 2007, famous for Tuscany's white gravel roads around Siena and now part of the WorldTour.

15 Race Across America

Race Across America is a nonstop ultra-distance road race across the United States, begun in 1982 as the Great American Bike Race.

16 Unbound Gravel 200

Unbound Gravel 200 is a 200-mile gravel race in Kansas, first held in 2006 as Dirty Kanza and centered on the Flint Hills near Emporia.

17 Il Lombardia

Il Lombardia is an Italian one-day Monument first held in 1905, a hilly autumn classic often called the Race of the Falling Leaves.

18 Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift

Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift is the women's cobbled classic in northern France, first held in 2021 and finishing in the Roubaix velodrome.

19 La Vuelta Ciclista a España

La Vuelta Ciclista a España is Spain's three-week Grand Tour, first held in 1935 and known for steep climbs and its red leader's jersey.

20 Leadville Trail 100 MTB

Leadville Trail 100 MTB is a 100-mile mountain-bike race in Colorado, first run in 1994 at high altitude around Leadville.

21 London-Edinburgh-London

London-Edinburgh-London is an Audax UK randonnée first held in 1989, covering about 1,500 km between England and Scotland.

22 Milano-Sanremo

Milano-Sanremo is an Italian one-day Monument first held in 1907, notable as the longest major professional classic at nearly 300 km.

23 Giro d'Italia Women

Giro d'Italia Women is Italy's premier women's stage race, first held in 1988 and long regarded as one of the hardest events in women's road cycling.

24 Tour of Flanders Women

Tour of Flanders Women is the women's edition of Belgium's Ronde, first held in 2004 and raced over Flemish cobbled climbs.

25 Roc d'Azur
Roc d'Azur

Roc d'Azur is a French mountain bike festival and race, created by Stéphane Hauvette in 1984 and now centered on Fréjus and Roquebrune.

26 Strade Bianche Women

Strade Bianche Women is an Italian one-day race in Tuscany, first held in 2015 and noted for white gravel sectors before the Siena finish.

27 Mid South
Mid South

The Mid South is a gravel cycling race in Stillwater, Oklahoma, notable for its red-dirt roads and a 100-mile headline ride.

28 The Traka 360

The Traka 360 is a 360 km gravel race in Girona, Spain, notable as one of Europe's major long-distance gravel events on Catalan tracks.

29 E3 Saxo Classic

E3 Saxo Classic is a Belgian one-day race first held in 1958, using Flemish cobbles and climbs as a key Tour of Flanders warm-up.

30 Six Days of Ghent

Six Days of Ghent is a six-day track cycling race in Belgium, first held in 1922 and noted for its short, steep Kuipke velodrome.

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