January 25, 2010 – Andre Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia leads the UCI Road World Ranking following the conclusion of the Tour Down Under, the first race of the new UCI World Calendar year, which took place in Australia from January 19-24. The UCI World Ranking (individual, teams and nations) is now available on the International Cycling Union’s website www.uci.ch.

UCI Individual Road Ranking as of January 25, 2010

1. Andre Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia 119
2. Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 86
3. Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Sky 79
4. Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katyusha 67
5. Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Milram 54
6. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 43
7. Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Katyusha 30
8. Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 22
9. Robbie Hunter (RSA) Garmin-Transitions 11
10. Manuel Cardoso (Por) Footon Servetto 7
11. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 6
12. Christopher Sutton (Aus) Team Sky 6
13. Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 5
14. Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team RadioShack 5
15. Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 4
16. Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Doimo 2
17. Mauro Finetto (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 1
18. Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1