# Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

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

## 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
       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 2

### General classification results timeline

| Stage race | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Emakumeen Euskal Bira | — | — | 7 | 66 | — | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held |
| The Women's Tour | — | — | 8 | 17 | — | NH | — | — | NH | — |
| Giro Donne | — | — | 16 | 6 | 14 | 4 | DNF | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| Challenge by La Vuelta | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | NH | NH |
| Tour de France | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | 7 | 7 | 28 |
| Belgium Tour | 11 | — | — | — | — | NH | — | — | NH | NH |
| Tour of Norway | 38 | 14 | — | — | — | NH | 5 | 1 | 2 | NH |

### Classics results timeline

| Classic | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 82 | 32 | 41 | — | 11 | — | 17 | — | 20 | DNF |
| Strade Bianche | — | — | 9 | 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 | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | NH | 16 | — | — | — |
| Amstel Gold Race | Did not exist | Did not exist | 67 | 39 | 6 | NH | 7 | — | 10 | — |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | — | 17 | 40 | 8 | 2 | 8 | — | 72 | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Did not exist | Did not exist | 10 | 41 | 10 | 17 | 8 | — | 30 | — |
| GP de Plouay | — | — | 39 | 20 | — | 30 | — | 51 | — | — |
| Open de Suède Vårgårda | — | — | 26 | 3 | — | Not held | Not held | — | NH | NH |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| DNE | Did not exist |