Niewiadoma-Phinney finishes 2026 second in UCI women's ranking

Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney finished second in the final UCI women's ranking for the 2026 season. Only Demi Vollering finished ahead of her, and the two also battled for victory in the Tour de France and at the world championships. The news was reported on 27 October 2026 by Sportowe Fakty, citing PAP.

Points and standings

Niewiadoma-Phinney collected 5,660 points over the season. Vollering had 9,330, and Spain's Paula Blasi was third with 5,201. It is the third season in which the Dutch rider has finished top of the ranking; she did so before in 2023 and 2025.

The Polish rider's season

Niewiadoma-Phinney won one race this year, but it was a prestigious Tour de France stage finishing on Mont Ventoux. She also regularly placed high in the most important events. She was second in the Tour de France general classification and took the same position at the world championships in Montreal. In both cases Vollering came out ahead.

She also reached the podium in several prestigious classics and in the Tour de Suisse.

Other Polish riders in the ranking

Two more Polish women made the top 100: Dominika Włodarczyk finished 14th and Marta Lach 54th.

Men's ranking

Among men, Tadej Pogacar finished first and, according to PAP, has not given up the top spot in the UCI ranking for six years. In 2026 he won 22 races, including the Tour de France and three of cycling's monuments: Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. After a crash during the Vuelta a España at the end of August he did not return to racing. He ended the year with 9,331 points. Behind him are Belgium's Remco Evenepoel (7,191 points) and Mexico's Isaac del Toro (5,606 points).

The highest-placed Polish man is Stanisław Aniołkowski in 152nd place. Marceli Bogusławski is 284th, and the 2014 world champion Michał Kwiatkowski is 641st.