Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) continues to lead the UCI's 'World Rankings' on the strength of his 10 wins so far this season, most recently taking stage 6 at the Criterium du Dauphine in a thrilling two-up sprint with Gregor Mühlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) after spending 216km in the day's breakaway.
Dauphine overall winner Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) wasn't able to hold off the charge by Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma), however, as the Slovenian's podium finish at the Giro d'Italia pushed him past the Dane into second on the World rankings. Fuglsang slipped to third ahead of Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Greg Van Avermaet (CCC Team) and Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe), all of whom maintained their ranking positions. Alexander Kristoff (UAE team Emirates), jumped up three places to eighth, followed by Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb)n in ninth and Oliver Naesen (Lotto Soudal) rounding out the top 10.
Benefitting from 41 wins so far this year, Alaphilippe's Deceuninck-Quickstep team have a commanding lead in the team ranking ahead of Peter Sagan's Bora-Hansgrohe and Roglič's Jumbo-Visma team. Astana dropped a spot to fourth, followed by Team Ineos, UAE Team Emirates, Movistar, Bahrain-Merida, Groupama-FDJ and Team Sunweb.
In the Continental rankings, South African champion Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) leads the Africa Tour, Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) leads the America Tour on the strength of his Tour Colombia win in February, Astana's Alexey Lutsenko leads the Asia Tour, Alaphilippe leads the Europe Tour and Matthews leads the Oceana Tour.
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