Everything you need to know about the 2022 Women's WorldTour calendar

The 2022 Women's WorldTour calendar is bigger than ever. The peloton can't go to Australia for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. Some races have been axed to make place for new races. One-day races still dominate the calendar, with 14 events, but there are more stage races this season.

Strade Bianche is a regular on the women's calendar since it was introduced in 2015. Last year SD Worx worked over the peloton to deliver Chantal van den Broek-Blaak to the win ahead of Elisa Longo Borghini.

The Ronde van Drenthe is a one-day race held on March 15th. Lorena Wiebes is the defending champion.

The Trofeo Alfredo Binda is one of the oldest women's races on the calendar. It features laps of a circuit around Cittiglio. Elisa Longo Borghini won in 2021 with a solo attack.

The 2022 Women's WorldTour calendar is announced. The event takes place on March 24th in Belgium. It features a one-day women's race and a single- day men's event.

The 2022 Women's WorldTour calendar includes the UCI race in Belgium on March 27th. It will be the ninth edition of the race. Lizzie Deignan and Kirsten Wild won the first two editions. Marianne Vos won it last year.

The Tour of Flanders is one of the longest one-day races on the women's calendar. Last year Annemiek van Vleuten won her second De Ronde.

Amstel Gold Race is taking place on April 10th. It will be sandwiched between Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix Femmes this season. The race will take place in 2022. Marianne Vos won here in 2021.

The first edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes was held in October last year. Lizzie Deignan was the first winner. The event is back in its normal slot after a week's delay.

The 2022 edition of Flèche Wallonne Femmes will be the first without Anna van der Breggen since her retirement. Van derBreggan won seven consecutive Mur de Huy titles.

The 2022 Women's WorldTour calendar is announced. The race takes place on April 24th in France. Last year's 141k route was the longest so far. Demi Vollering won the race last year.

The Basque Country stage race is taking place on May 13-15. Last year's race was postponed by a year to focus on a women's San Sebastián instead. The one-day race will be replaced by the Tour de France Femmes.

The Vuelta a Burgos Feminas is taking place in Spain from May 19-22. Itzulia Women event takes place a few days before. Anna van der Breggen beat Annemiek van Vleuten by three seconds last year.

The first edition of the Women's WorldTour race takes place on May 27-29. The route will venture outside London following a partnership with Essex County Council.

The Women's Tour is back in its usual June slot after taking place in October last year due to COVID restrictions in the UK. The organizers hope to create a strong stretch of racing in UK with the introduction of the RideLondon Classique. Last year’s race was a sprint-heavy affair due the limitations posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2021 Women's WorldTour is taking place in Italy. It will be held from July 1-10. The race was rebranded last year after it was demoted from the World Tour.

The 2022 Women's WorldTour is taking place in France from July 24-31. It will be the first organized by ASO, which also organizes the men's race. The race will begin in Paris on the final day of the event and finish on Planches des Belles Filles in the Vosges.

Suède Vårgårda TTT is the only standalone team time trial event on the women's calendar. It was set to be absorbed into the new Battle of the North race, but it pulled out and decided to keep its unique place on calendar, as it is independent event.

The road race at the Open de Suède Vårgårda has been running two years longer than the team time trial. Marianne Vos has the win record with three victories. Marta Bastianelli was the last winner back in 2019.

The Battle of the North is still scheduled to go ahead with visits to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The race is backed by the organizer of Ladies Tour of Norway.

The 2022 Women's WorldTour calendar includes the GP de Plouay. It takes place on August 27th. Last year Elisa Longo Borghini won by 12 seconds.

The race takes place between August 30 and September 4 in the Netherlands. It features a mixture of hilly and flat stages with some time trialing. Chantal van den Broek-Blaak won the race last year thanks to her TT skills and getting into a break following a crash in a bunch on stage 3.

The Challenge by La Vuelta is taking place in Spain from September 7-11. It was originally a one-day race that coincided with the final day of the Vuelt a España. Last year it was expanded to four days and it moved to Galicia for the first time. This year's race has been expanded again to a fifth day.

The Tour de Romandie is taking place on October 7-9 in Switzerland. It was added to the Women's WorldTour calendar in September.

The 2022 Women's WorldTour is taking place in China on October 13-15. The Tour of Chongming Island has been canceled for the past two years due to COVID-19. This year it has to be pushed back to October to give it the best chance of going ahead. Previous overall winners include Lorena Wiebes, Jolien D’hoore, and Kirsten Wild.

The Tour of Guangxi is being held on October 18th. It is another offering for sprinters. Chloe Hosking was the last winner.