| Details | |
|---|---|
| Location |
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| Races | 9 |
| Champions | |
| Male individual champion |  Toon Aerts (BEL) (Telenet–Fidea Lions) |
| Female individual champion |  Marianne Vos (NED) (WaowDeals Pro Cycling &CCC Liv[a]) |
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The2018–19 Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup was a season long cyclo-cross competition, organised by theUnion Cycliste Internationale (UCI). TheUCI Cyclo-cross World Cup took place between 23 September 2018 and 27 January 2019, over a total of nine events. The defending champions wereMathieu van der Poel in the men's competition andSanne Cant in the women's competition.
Three of the five titles were secured at the penultimate round in France; with her fourth race victory, seven-time world championMarianne Vos clinched her first World Cup title,[1] leaving the round 132 points clear of her next closest competitor, compatriotAnnemarie Worst. With his fourth win in five starts,[2] British riderTom Pidcock took the under-23 men's title for the second consecutive season – sealing a maximum possible points tally of 240 – while a second-place finish was enough for Belgium'sWitse Meeussen to claim the junior men's title.[3]
At the final event in the Netherlands, home riderCeylin del Carmen Alvarado sealed the women's under-23 ranking victory,[4] finishing in seventh place overall in the elite standings. The back-and-forth battle between BelgiansToon Aerts andWout van Aert in the elite men standings was decided in the favour of Aerts – with 615 points,[5] to van Aert's 613; the two riders took three victories between them as van der Poel won all six races he started in the World Cup season,[6] finishing third overall.
Points were awarded to all eligible riders each race. The top ten finishers received points according to the following table:
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elite riders[7][b] | 80 | 70 | 65 | 60 | 55 | 50 | 48 | 46 | 44 | 42 |
| U23/Junior riders[7] | 60 | 50 | 45 | 40 | 35 | 30 | 28 | 26 | 24 | 22 |
In comparison to last season, the races inBogense,Nommay andZeven were replaced byBern,Pontchâteau andTábor. The race in Bern will be the first Cyclo-cross World Cup race in Switzerland since the2010–11 season.
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| Pos. | Rider | WAT | JIN | BER | TAB | KOK | NAM | ZOL | PON | HOO | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toon Aerts (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 615 |
| 2 | Wout van Aert (BEL) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 613 |
| 3 | Mathieu van der Poel (NED) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 480 | |||
| 4 | Corné van Kessel (NED) | 6 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 445 |
| 5 | Quinten Hermans (BEL) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 438 |
| 6 | Lars van der Haar (NED) | 18 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 436 |
| 7 | Laurens Sweeck (BEL) | 3 | 9 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 425 |
| 8 | Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL) | Ret | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 3 | DNS | 399 |
| 9 | Daan Soete (BEL) | 5 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 17 | 25 | 376 |
| 10 | Kevin Pauwels (BEL) | 12 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 367 |
| 104 riders scored points[11] | |||||||||||
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| Pos. | Rider | WAT | JIN | BER | TAB | KOK | NAM | ZOL | PON | HOO | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marianne Vos (NED) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 559 | |
| 2 | Sanne Cant (BEL) | 10 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 418 | |
| 3 | Annemarie Worst (NED) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 400 | ||
| 4 | Kaitlin Keough (USA) | 19 | 1 | 10 | 21 | 21 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 384 |
| 5 | Denise Betsema (NED) | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 378 | ||
| 6 | Loes Sels (BEL) | 5 | 10 | 17 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 19 | 8 | 367 |
| 7 | Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (NED) | 5 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 357 | ||
| 8 | Katie Compton (USA) | Ret | 15 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 349 |
| 9 |  Eva Lechner (ITA) | 16 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 348 |
| 10 | Ellen Van Loy (BEL) | 6 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | DNS | 29 | 5 | 25 | 347 |
| 127 total riders[c] scored points[12] | |||||||||||
| Pos. | Rider | BER | TAB | KOK | NAM | ZOL | PON | HOO | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tom Pidcock (GBR) | (4) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 240 | ||||
| 2 | Eli Iserbyt (BEL) | 1 | (DNS) | (8) | 3 | 1 | (5) | 1 | 225 | ||
| 3 | Antoine Benoist (FRA) | (3) | 3 | 2 | (4) | 2 | 2 | 195 | |||
| 4 | Jakob Dorigoni (ITA) | (12) | 2 | (15) | 2 | (6) | 3 | 4 | 185 | ||
| 5 | Eddy Finé (FRA) | 2 | 10 | (12) | 5 | (20) | 8 | (17) | 133 | ||
| 6 | Niels Vandeputte (BEL) | 8 | 4 | 7 | (34) | (14) | 5 | 129 | |||
| 7 | Maik van der Heijden (NED) | 5 | 14 | (DSQ) | (24) | 2 | 10 | (22) | 124 | ||
| 8 | Ben Turner (GBR) | 4 | 9 | 27 | 3 | 113 | |||||
| 9 | Lander Loockx (BEL) | 7 | 7 | (Ret) | (14) | (10) | 9 | 8 | 106 | ||
| 10 | Loris Rouiller (SUI) | (22) | 11 | (22) | 7 | 8 | 6 | 104 | |||
| 69 riders scored points[13] | |||||||||||
| Pos. | Rider | WAT | JIN | BER | TAB | KOK | NAM | ZOL | PON | HOO | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (NED) | 5 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 357 | ||
| 2 | Fleur Nagengast (NED) | 11 | 17 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 23 | 323 |
| 3 | Inge van der Heijden (NED) | 9 | 20 | 27 | 17 | 17 | 27 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 301 |
| 4 | Manon Bakker (NED) | 23 | 30 | 16 | 29 | 33 | 30 | 24 | 20 | 35 | 219 |
| 5 | Evie Richards (GBR) | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | DNS | DNS | 210 | |||
| 6 | Clara Honsinger (USA) | 14 | 19 | 28 | 32 | 23 | 19 | 171 | |||
| 7 | Marion Norbert-Riberolle (FRA) | 30 | 30 | 37 | 19 | 18 | 30 | 28 | 165 | ||
| 8 | Jana Czeczinkarová (CZE) | 34 | 16 | 28 | 14 | DNS | 50 | 113 | |||
| 9 | Marthe Truyen (BEL) | 32 | 35 | 30 | 35 | 22 | 40 | 112 | |||
| 10 | Nicole Koller (SUI) | 22 | 22 | 20 | 89 | ||||||
| 59 riders scored points[12] | |||||||||||
| Pos. | Rider | BER | TAB | KOK | NAM | ZOL | PON | HOO | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Witse Meeussen (BEL) | 1 | 1 | (2) | (3) | (7) | 2 | 1 | 230 | ||
| 2 | Ryan Cortjens (BEL) | (25) | (26) | 10 | 1 | 1 | (29) | 4 | 182 | ||
| 3 | Thibau Nys (BEL) | (18) | 2 | 7 | (17) | 4 | 1 | (Ret) | 178 | ||
| 4 | Luke Verburg (NED) | 2 | (21) | (20) | 7 | 2 | 5 | (12) | 163 | ||
| 5 |  Tom Lindner (GER) | (39) | 3 | 3 | (36) | 9 | 5 | 149 | |||
| 6 | Pim Ronhaar (NED) | 10 | 5 | 1 | (38) | 7 | 145 | ||||
| 7 | Jan Zatloukal (CZE) | (23) | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 119 | ||||
| 8 | Wout Vervoort (BEL) | (16) | 10 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 104 | ||||
| 9 | Jakub Ťoupalík (CZE) | 11 | 4 | 8 | (19) | 16 | (25) | (33) | 101 | ||
| 10 | Lennert Belmans (BEL) | 17 | (24) | 18 | 7 | 3 | 100 | ||||
| 70 riders scored points[14] | |||||||||||
With Cant taking no points while Vos took the maximum of 80 points with her fourth World Cup win of the season, Vos secured a career-first overall World Cup victory.
Pidcock's dominance in this season's competition has really caught the eye, the 19-year-old sealed the overall win in the U23 classification at the 2019 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup.
Witse Meeussen is de eindwinnaar in het klassement. [Witse Meeussen is the final winner in the standings.]
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (Corendon-Circus) is the overall winner in the Women Under 23 category.
Van der Poel, who turned 24 last week, has so far this season won the European and Dutch championships and every World Cup round in which he participated; he skipped the two opening rounds and last week's penultimate round in Pont-Château in favour of a training camp in Spain.