Arlenis Sierra is the best non-European cyclist in road cycling in 2020

October 2, 2020

After the Flèche Wallonne in Belgium, the most recent elite world cycling race, Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra continues as the best non-European athlete in the universal ranking of road cycling, one of the most competitive sports with the greatest economic requirements.

The captain of the Kazakh-Italian club Astana Women's Team is in 12th place in the world ranking of the International Cycling Union (UCI), led by Dutch world champions Annemiek van Vleuten and Anna van der Breggen, with 2,692 and 2,337.67 points, respectively, according to the tables on the UCI website.

Van Vleuten and van der Breggen are the only ones exceeding 1,650 points, while the Cuban has 794, despite not competing for more than six months in Cuba and missing an important race like the Strade Bianche in Italy, due to restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the World Tour ranking, Sierra is in 13th place with 346 points, surpassed only by Europeans and one New Zealander in 10th place, on a list with van der Breggen at the top, thanks to 1,149.67 points, consolidated in September with four consecutive victories, in the Giro Rosa (the longest and most important stage race) and the two Road World Championship events in Italy, as well as the Flèche Wallonne in Belgium, the latter won for the sixth consecutive time.

In early 2020, Sierra, a 27-year-old from Manzanillo, was second in the World Tour ranking, thanks to the silver medal in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in Australia, a race she dominated in 2019.