Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .

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. 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. 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.

She finished in fourth place in the 2020 Giro Rosa, and won the green jersey as winner of the mountains classification.

In July 2022, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes. 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. 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.

Major results

2012 UCI Junior Road World Championships

8th Road race 2016

1st Stages 1 & 5

Gracia–Orlová

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

2nd Overall Giro della Toscana

2nd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT UCI Road World Championships

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

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

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

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 Stage 5 2nd Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 3rd 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 2nd Overall Tour of Scandinavia 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 & 5 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Tre Valli Varesine

3rd Strade Bianche 4th Overall Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées 6th Overall Giro Donne 7th Overall Tour de France 10th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 10th Amstel Gold Race 2024 3rd Deakin University Road Race 8th Overall Giro d'Italia 9th Overall Tour Down Under 1st Stage 2 2025 6th Overall Tour of Britain 7th Tre Valli Varesine

General classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

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