The UCI U-23 Nations Cup is a cycling competition that brings together the best professional careers, limited to runners under 23 years old. It was created in 2007 by the UCI, when it began to officially regulate professional careers with limited age, to enhance some of them.
Parallel to the races adhered to this competition also score for the UCI Continental Circuits having the consideration of category races .2 (last category of professionalism), although with the indication of ".Ncup" to indicate such circumstance (the rest that they have limitation to sub-23 runners are indicated with a "U" at the end of the category) through their own score, while for this competition only is scored by countries with their own rating scale.
It is disputed by selections, being able to participate both national and mixed selections (with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 runners). Mixed selections can be entirely from one country.
Careers Awards Scoring ScaleIn 2016, after the creation of the UCI World Ranking that recovered the old UCI Ranking, there was a complete restructuring in the scoring scales, granting more points to the first 10 runners in the categories 1.2U, 2.2U, Ncup and the top 20 in the Tour de l'Avenir race, especially, this race has a category of points different from the others. Currently, the points are distributed as follows:
For the races that score in the UCI Continental Circuits, its specific rules are adopted and in those classifications its scale of points, in fact the races of this competition until June 30 can only invite those countries that are in the first places of the ranking by sub-23 countries of those rankings (from the 1st of the UCI Africa Tour to the first 18 of the UCI Europe Tour, or in its case mixed selections). However, for the classification of the UCI Nations Cup, as it is only a classification by country, the races have different scores and also scores only the first runner in the country. Points to the final classifications Points per stage
In multi-stage races, points are awarded to the first 3 (except the U23 races that do not belong to the Nations Cup) in each of them. The same score is given to the prologues and half stage. Points to the leader
At each stage points are awarded to the leader of the general classification.
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