Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez.[5]
 Ludwig at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Cille | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 August 1995 Frederiksberg Municipality, Denmark | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | FDJ–Suez | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
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| 2015 | Team Rytger | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Team BMS BIRN[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
| 2020– | FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
One day races
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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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]
She finished in fourth place in the 2020 Giro Rosa, and won the green jersey as winner of the mountains classification.[9][10]
In July 2022, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13]
Major results
- 2012
- UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 2nd
Time trial - 8th Road race
- 2nd
- 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
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour of Norway - Gracia–Orlová
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Sprints classification
- 1st
- 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
- 1st Young rider classification, Giro Rosa
- 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 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
- 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
- 1st
- 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
- 2nd Overall Tour of Scandinavia
- 1st Stage 2 & 5
- 3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 3rd Strade Bianche
- 6th Overall Giro Donne
- 10th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
- 10th Amstel Gold Race
General classification results timeline
| Stage race | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Emakumeen Euskal Bira | — | — | 7 | 66 | — | Not held | |||
| The Women's Tour | — | — | 8 | 17 | — | NH | — | — | NH |
| Giro Donne | — | — | 16 | 6 | 14 | 4 | DNF | 6 | 6 |
| Challenge by La Vuelta | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — |
| Tour de France | Did not exist | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Belgium Tour | 11 | — | — | — | — | NH | — | — | NH |
| Tour of Norway | 38 | 14 | — | — | — | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
Classics results timeline
| Classic | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 82 | 32 | 41 | — | 11 | — | 17 | — | 20 |
| Strade Bianche | — | — | — | 10 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda | DNF | — | 3 | 7 | 3 | NH | 3 | 9 | — |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | 38 | 65 | 54 | — | 36 | — | — |
| Tour of Flanders | 66 | 43 | 12 | 30 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 29 |
| Paris–Roubaix | Did not exist | NH | 16 | — | — | ||||
| Amstel Gold Race | Did not exist | 67 | 39 | 6 | 7 | — | 10 | ||
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | — | 17 | 40 | 8 | 2 | 8 | — | 72 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Did not exist | 10 | 41 | 10 | 17 | 8 | — | 30 | |
| GP de Plouay | — | — | 39 | 20 | — | 30 | — | 51 | |
| Open de Suède Vårgårda | — | — | 26 | 3 | — | Not held | — | NH | |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| DNE | Did not exist |
References
- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig at Cycling Archives
- Brandt, Henriette (12 September 2016). "Cervélo Bigla skriver med dansk enkeltstartsmester" (in Danish). Feltet.dk. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- "Bigla Pro Cycling Team". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- "Uttrup Ludwig shows off new FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope kit". Cyclingnews.com. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- "FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- UK, Eurosport (17 July 2022). "CECILE UTTRUP LUDWIG GIVES EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW AFTER FOURTH-PLACE FINISH AT LA COURSE". Eurosport. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- UK, Eurosport (17 July 2022). "CECILE UTTRUP LUDWIG GIVES EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW AFTER FOURTH-PLACE FINISH AT LA COURSE". Eurosport. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- Staff, cyclingnews (3 April 2020). "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.com. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- Giuliani, Simone (19 September 2020). "Van der Breggen wins the Giro Rosa". CyclingNews. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- "Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile 2020 Stage 9". ProCyclingStats. 19 September 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- "Tour de France Femmes 2022: Riders to watch as women's race returns after 33 years". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- Whittle, Jeremy (26 July 2022). "Tears of joy for Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig after Tour de France Femmes stage win". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- O'Shea, Sadhbh (30 July 2022). "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". Velo News by Outside Magazine. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
External links
- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig at Cycling Archives
- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig at ProCyclingStats