Martin is now 25th in the UCI rankings, pictured here on stage 17 of the Tour de France last week
Bradley Wiggins has moved to the top of the UCI WorldTour rider rankings after his dominant display in the Tour de France and now leads the standings by a massive margin of almost 200 points for second placed Joaquin Rodriguez.
Daniel Martin has slipped a little from 20th in the last rankings to 25th in the new standings published today, Monday.
However, Nicolas Roche has moved up considerably to 75th place of the total 218 riders who feature in the rankings. Roche had been 140th in the rankings published before the Tour de France.
The Garmin-Sharp and Ag2r men are the only two Irish riders to score UCI WorldTour points this year.
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Their points tallies combined have left Ireland 17th in the UCI WorldTour Nations rankings.
Ireland had previously been as high as 9th and had Ireland held that place we would have been eligible to field a six-man team at the World Road Race Championships in Holland in September.
All nations in the top ten of the UCI rankings on the cut off date of August 15th are eligible to field six riders at the elite Worlds.
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However, as other nations with more riders on the WorldTour scored more points combined than the Irish riders in recent months, Ireland has now fallen a little to 17th.
Given the fact that just two Irish riders have scored points, that placing is still a very respectable one. It will entitle Ireland to field three riders at the Worlds.
Once a nation has one rider in the top 100 in the rankings on the Worlds qualification cut off date of August 15th that nation is eligible to enter three riders in the Worlds.
It would not be possible for Martin to slip out of the top 100 in such a short time frame to mid August.
UCI Rider World Tour Rankings
1 WIGGINS Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 601
2 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin (KATUSHA TEAM) 404
3 NIBALI Vincenzo (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) 400
4 BOONEN Tom (OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP) 368
5 SAGAN Peter (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) 351
6 FROOME Christopher (SKY PROCYCLING) 266
7 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel (EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI) 252
8 VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen (LOTTO BELISOL TEAM) 237
9 GERRANS Simon (ORICA GREENEDGE) 210
10 VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro (MOVISTAR TEAM) 201
11 HESJEDAL Ryder (GARMIN - SHARP) 197
12 ROGERSMichael (SKY PROCYCLING) 194
13 FARIA DA COSTA Rui Alberto (MOVISTAR TEAM) 189
14 KREUZIGER Roman (ASTANA PRO TEAM) 189
15 CUNEGO Damiano (LAMPRE - ISD) 184
16 SCARPONI Michele (LAMPRE – ISD) 184
17 ALBASINI Michael (ORICA GREENEDGE) 183
18 EVANS Cadel (BMC RACING TEAM) 182
19 FREIRE GOMEZ Oscar (KATUSHA TEAM) 181
20 BALLAN Alessandro (BMC RACING TEAM) 166
21 VAN GARDEREN Tejay (BMC RACING TEAM) 160
22 GASPAROTTO Enrico (ASTANA PRO TEAM) 150
23 CANCELLARA Fabian (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) 134
24 MOLLEMA Bauke (RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM) 134
25 MARTIN Daniel (GARMIN - SHARP) 132
75 ROCHE Nicolas (AG2R LA MONDIALE) 36
(A total of 218 riders have scored points and are ranked)
UCI Nations Rankings
1 SPAIN 1,136
2 ITALY 1,084
3 GREAT BRITAIN 1,041
4 BELGIUM 915
5 AUSTRALIA 734
6 UNITED STATES 470
7 NETHERLANDS 433
8 SLOVAKIA 361
9 SWITZERLAND 338
10 PORTUGAL 281
11 GERMANY 262
12 COLOMBIA 258
13 FRANCE 233
14 SLOVENIA 199
15 CANADA 198
16 CZECH REPUBLIC 195
17 IRELAND 168
18 NORWAY 152
19 POLAND 131
20 DENMARK 116
21 KAZAKHSTAN 110
22 RUSSIA 97
23 LUXEMBOURG 90
24 CROATIA 77
25 AUSTRIA 51
26 BELARUS 50
27 ARGENTINA 22
28 COSTA RICA 20
29 SWEDEN 14
30 SOUTH AFRICA 12
31 LITHUANIA 10
32 ESTONIA 6
33 NEW ZEALAND 5
34 UKRAINE 2
35 BRAZIL 1
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