 Ludwig at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Cille | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 August 1995 Frederiksberg Municipality, Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | FDJ–Suez | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 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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Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez.[5]
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]
Time trial
Time trial, National Road Championships
Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
Young rider classification
Mountains classification, Tour of Norway
Mountains classification Sprints classification
Young rider classification, Auensteiner–Radsporttage Time trial, National Road Championships
Youth classification, UCI Women's World Tour
Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
Young rider classification Young rider classification, Giro Rosa Young rider classification
Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
Team time trial Time trial, National Road Championships
Mountains classification, Tour of Scotland Mountains classification Road race, National Road Championships Overall Tour of Scandinavia
Road race, UCI Road World Championships| Stage race | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| DNE | Did not exist |
