Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig Explained
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .[4]
Career
As a junior, she competed at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships and the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.
In the 2018 La Course by Le Tour de France, she finished in 4th place, with her teammate Ashleigh Moolman taking the final podium place.[5] She also took the mountains classification in this race. After this race, she gave her first of what would become several excitable interviews, with this one including advice for any cyclist who has bad legs to have their wisdom teeth removed. At the very, end she said was so excited for chocolate and champagne and pizza and vacation.[6] Over the next few years, her results in France would only get better. The next year, she claimed the final podium place, while in 2021, she placed 2nd, and in 2022, she won a stage.
She finished on the podium in 3rd in the 2019 Tour of Flanders. Her post race interview went viral as a result of her excited and comical demeanor giving a vivid description of the passionate fans and the sprint finish as the peloton was closing in on her group of surviving breakaway riders. Near the end of the interview she described herself as a dead fish, but a happy dead fish.[7]
She finished in fourth place in the 2020 Giro Rosa, and won the green jersey as winner of the mountains classification.[8] [9]
In July 2022, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes.[10] She won stage 3 of the race in a reduced sprint, and once again had a memorable post race interview. During the course of the interview she commented, through tears of joy, that the win was very satisfying considering the "fucking shit day" that she and her teammates had suffered the day before with crashes and bad luck.[11] On stage 7, which was the first of back-to-back high mountain stages, she finished third. As a result, she rose in the overall standings to fifth.[12]
Major results
- 2012
UCI Junior Road World Championships
2nd Time trial
8th Road race
- 2016
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 1 & 5
1st Mountains classification, Tour of Norway
Gracia–Orlová
1st Mountains classification
1st Sprints classification
1st Young rider classification, Auensteiner–Radsporttage
5th KZN Summer Series Race 2
7th 94.7 Cycle Challenge
9th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
9th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
10th Boels Rental Hills Classic
- 2017
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Youth classification, UCI Women's World Tour
1st Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
1st Young rider classification
1st Young rider classification, Giro Rosa
2nd Overall Giro della Toscana
1st Young rider classification
2nd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
2nd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
UCI Road World Championships
3rd Team time trial
10th Time trial
3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
3rd La Classique Morbihan
5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
7th Overall Emakumeen XXX. Bira
8th Overall The Women's Tour
9th Strade Bianche
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2018
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
3rd Ladies Tour of Norway – TTT
3rd Giro dell'Emilia
4th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
4th La Course by Le Tour de France
4th Chrono des Nations
6th Overall Giro Rosa
7th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
10th Strade Bianche
- 2019
1st Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
1st Mountains classification, Tour of Scotland
3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
3rd Tour of Flanders
3rd La Course by Le Tour de France
4th Overall Tour de Bretagne
5th Strade Bianche
6th Amstel Gold Race
8th La Flèche Wallonne
10th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2020
1st Giro dell'Emilia
2nd La Flèche Wallonne
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
4th Overall Giro Rosa
1st Mountains classification
7th Strade Bianche
8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2021
2nd La Course by Le Tour de France
3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
5th Overall Tour of Norway
5th Strade Bianche
6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
1st Stage 3
7th Tour of Flanders
7th Amstel Gold Race
8th La Flèche Wallonne
8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2022
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Overall Tour of Scandinavia
1st Stage 5
2nd Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
3th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
5th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta
5th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
5th Strade Bianche
6th Tour of Flanders
6th Overall Giro Donne
7th Overall Tour de France
1st Stage 3
9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2023
1st Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite
2nd Overall Tour of Scandinavia
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2 & 5
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2nd Tre Valli Varesine
3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships
3rd Strade Bianche
4th Overall Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées
6th Overall Giro Donne
7th Overall Tour de France Femmes
10th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
10th Amstel Gold Race
- 2024
3rd Deakin University Road Race
8th Overall Giro d'Italia Women
9th Overall Women's Tour Down Under
1st Stage 2General classification results timeline
Classics results timeline
Legend| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
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| NH | Not held |
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| DNE | Did not exist | |
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Notes and References
- Web site: Cervélo Bigla skriver med dansk enkeltstartsmester. Brandt. Henriette. 12 September 2016. Feltet.dk. Danish. 5 November 2016.
- Web site: Bigla Pro Cycling Team. Cyclingnews.com. 4 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203222643/http://www.cyclingnews.com/teams/2019/bigla-pro-cycling-team/. 3 February 2019.
- News: Uttrup Ludwig shows off new FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope kit. Cyclingnews.com. 11 December 2019. 15 January 2020.
- Web site: FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 11 January 2021. https://archive.today/20210111212624/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15268/1001112/281. 11 January 2021.
- Web site: CECILE UTTRUP LUDWIG GIVES EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW AFTER FOURTH-PLACE FINISH AT LA COURSE. Eurosport. UK. Eurosport. 17 July 2022. 30 July 2022.
- Web site: CECILE UTTRUP LUDWIG GIVES EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW AFTER FOURTH-PLACE FINISH AT LA COURSE. Eurosport. UK. Eurosport. 17 July 2022. 30 July 2022.
- Web site: Post-race MVP: Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig's 2019 Tour of Flanders interview - Video: 'Pam!' 24-year-old Dane didn't take the Flanders victory, but her animated race recap won a lot of fans . cyclingnews . Staff . cyclingnews.com . 3 April 2020. 27 July 2022.
- Web site: Van der Breggen wins the Giro Rosa. Simone. Giuliani. CyclingNews. 19 September 2020. 19 September 2020.
- Web site: Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile 2020 Stage 9. ProCyclingStats. 19 September 2020. 19 September 2020.
- News: Tour de France Femmes 2022: Riders to watch as women's race returns after 33 years . 21 July 2022 . BBC Sport . 21 July 2022.
- Web site: Tears of joy for Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig after Tour de France Femmes stage win . Jeremy . Whittle . The Guardian . 26 July 2022 . 27 July 2022.
- Web site: Tour de France Femmes: Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig 'a dead fish' after finishing third on 'queen stage': The Danish rider is closing in on a podium place, but has some time to make up on the final stage . Sadhbh . O'Shea . Velo News by Outside Magazine . 30 July 2022 . 31 July 2022.
