The 2018–19 Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup was a season long cyclo-cross competition, organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup took place between 23 September 2018 and 27 January 2019, over a total of nine events. The defending champions were Mathieu van der Poel in the men's competition and Sanne 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 champion Marianne Vos clinched her first World Cup title, leaving the round 132 points clear of her next closest competitor, compatriot Annemarie Worst. With his fourth win in five starts, British rider Tom 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's Witse Meeussen to claim the junior men's title.
At the final event in the Netherlands, home rider Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado sealed the women's under-23 ranking victory, finishing in seventh place overall in the elite standings. The back-and-forth battle between Belgians Toon Aerts and Wout van Aert in the elite men standings was decided in the favour of Aerts – with 615 points, 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, finishing third overall.
Points distribution Points were awarded to all eligible riders each race. The top ten finishers received points according to the following table:
+ Points awarded Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Elite riders 80 70 65 60 55 50 48 46 44 42 U23/Junior riders 60 50 45 40 35 30 28 26 24 22 Elite riders finishing in positions 11 to 50 also received points, going down from 40 points for 11th place by one point per place to 1 point for 50th place. For the age group riders (excluding under-23 women), those finishing in positions 11 to 30 also received points, going down from 20 points for 11th place by one point per place to 1 point for 30th place. As well as this, only the top four scores for each rider count towards the World Cup standings.
Events In comparison to last season, the races in Bogense, Nommay and Zeven were replaced by Bern, Pontchâteau and Tábor. The race in Bern will be the first Cyclo-cross World Cup race in Switzerland since the 2010–11 season.
Date Race Location Winners Elite men Elite women Under-23 men Junior men 24 September World Cup Waterloo Waterloo, United States colspan=2 rowspan=2 29 September Jingle Cross Iowa City, United States 21 October Cyclo-cross Bern Bern, Switzerland 17 November Cyklokros Tábor Tábor, Czech Republic 25 November Duinencross Koksijde Koksijde, Belgium 23 December Citadelcross Namur, Belgium 26 December Grand Prix Eric De Vlaeminck Heusden-Zolder, Belgium 20 January Cyclo-cross Pontchâteau Pontchâteau, France 27 January Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel Hoogerheide, Netherlands
Final points standings Elite men
Rider WAT JIN BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL PON HOO Points 1 1 1 3 4 3 3 4 2 2 615 2 2 2 2 7 2 2 2 1 3 613 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 480 4 6 5 7 12 5 6 9 9 4 445 5 4 4 5 5 17 13 6 13 7 438 6 18 11 9 3 4 10 8 4 8 436 7 3 9 18 9 6 8 5 6 13 425 8 Ret 3 4 2 8 5 13 3 DNS 399 9 5 10 6 10 7 14 10 17 25 376 10 12 7 16 6 10 12 15 8 19 367 104 riders scored points
Elite women
Rider WAT JIN BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL PON HOO Points 1 1 3 1 12 2 1 1 3 559 2 10 5 4 6 7 13 3 4 418 3 2 2 3 3 9 7 13 400 4 19 1 10 21 21 8 17 11 6 384 5 13 5 1 7 12 2 7 378 6 5 10 17 25 11 10 6 19 8 367 7 5 7 4 9 4 4 21 357 8 Ret 15 3 11 13 31 13 10 2 349 9 16 6 9 19 27 6 10 15 16 348 10 6 11 7 4 8 DNS 29 5 25 347 127 total riders scored points
Under-23 men Rider BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL PON HOO Points 1 (4) 1 1 1 1 240 2 1 (DNS) (8) 3 1 (5) 1 225 3 (3) 3 2 (4) 2 2 195 4 (12) 2 (15) 2 (6) 3 4 185 5 2 10 (12) 5 (20) 8 (17) 133 6 8 4 7 (34) (14) 5 129 7 5 14 (DSQ) (24) 2 10 (22) 124 8 4 9 27 3 113 9 7 7 (Ret) (14) (10) 9 8 106 10 (22) 11 (22) 7 8 6 104 69 riders scored points
Under-23 women Rider WAT JIN BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL PON HOO Points 1 5 7 4 9 4 4 21 357 2 11 17 26 14 10 16 15 8 23 323 3 9 20 27 17 17 27 8 9 31 301 4 23 30 16 29 33 30 24 20 35 219 5 4 2 15 9 DNS DNS 210 6 14 19 28 32 23 19 171 7 30 30 37 19 18 30 28 165 8 34 16 28 14 DNS 50 113 9 32 35 30 35 22 40 112 10 22 22 20 89 59 riders scored points
Junior men Rider BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL PON HOO Points 1 1 1 (2) (3) (7) 2 1 230 2 (25) (26) 10 1 1 (29) 4 182 3 (18) 2 7 (17) 4 1 (Ret) 178 4 2 (21) (20) 7 2 5 (12) 163 5 (39) 3 3 (36) 9 5 149 6 10 5 1 (38) 7 145 7 (23) 7 5 6 8 119 8 (16) 10 6 6 10 104 9 11 4 8 (19) 16 (25) (33) 101 10 17 (24) 18 7 3 100 70 riders scored points
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