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
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
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
Classics results timeline
See also
List of 2015 UCI Women's Teams and riders
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Danish female cyclists
People from Frederiksberg Municipality
Olympic cyclists for Denmark
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from the Capital Region of Denmark
21st-century Danish women