Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional
road cyclist
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, who currently rides for
UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Career
As a junior, she competed at the
2012 UCI Road World Championships
The 2012 UCI Road World Championships took place in the southern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, also known as South Limburg, between September 15 and 23. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23 ...
and the
2013 UCI Road World Championships
The 2013 UCI Road World Championships took place in Tuscany, Italy, between 22 and 29 September 2013.
The Championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 86th Road World Championships, the 13th in Italy a ...
.
In the
2018 La Course by Le Tour de France she finished in 4th place, with her teammate
Ashleigh Moolman
Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (née Moolman; born 9 December 1985) is a South African professional female road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishi ...
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,
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
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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
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First edition
According to the definition of ''edition'' above, a b ...
of the
Tour de France Femmes
The Tour de France Femmes () is an annual women's cycle stage race around France. It is organised by Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), which also runs the Tour de France. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour.
Some teams and media have referr ...
. 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
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::8th
Road race
;2016
: 1st
Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
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The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Euro ...
::1st Stages 1 & 5
: 1st
![Jersey polkadot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Jersey_polkadot.svg)
Mountains classification,
Tour of Norway
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: 1st
![Jersey green](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Jersey_green.svg)
Mountains classification,
Gracia Orlova Gracia may refer to:
Places
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: 5th
KZN Summer Series Race 2
: 7th
94.7 Cycle Challenge
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: 9th Road race,
UEC European Road Championships
: 9th
Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik
: 10th
Boels Rental Hills Classic
;2017
: 1st
Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 1st
![UCI Womens World Tour - Youth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/UCI_Womens_World_Tour_-_Youth.png)
Youth classification,
UCI Women's World Tour
The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour.
History
In order to increase the coverage of Women's cycling the UCI held a summit in December 2014 between the UCI Women’s Working Group and the UCI Women's ...
: 1st
![Jersey orange](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Jersey_orange.svg)
Overall
Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
: 1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification,
Giro Rosa
: 2nd Overall
Giro della Toscana
The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race will ...
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
: 2nd
![Silver medal europe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Silver_medal_europe.svg)
Time trial,
UEC U23 European Cycling Championships
: 2nd
Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
:
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
::3rd
![Bronze medal blank](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Bronze_medal_blank.svg)
Team time trial
::10th Time trial
: 3rd
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 3rd
La Classique Morbihan
La Classique Morbihan is a women's one-day cycle race which takes place in France and is currently rated by the UCI as category 1.1, having been rated 1.2 in 2015. It is held as the first race of the Grand Prix Morbihan weekend in Grand-Champ, ...
: 5th
Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries
The UCI ProSeries is the second tie ...
: 7th Overall
Emakumeen XXX. Bira
: 8th Overall
The Women's Tour
The Women's Tour is a women's cycle stage race held in England and Wales, as part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The race is organised by SweetSpot, the company behind the men's Tour of Britain.
History
Its origins trace back to 2010 whe ...
: 9th
Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 10th
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Monuments'' of the European professional r ...
;2018
: 1st
Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 3rd
Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
: 3rd
Ladies Tour of Norway - TTT
: 3rd
Giro dell'Emilia
The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar. The ...
: 4th Overall
Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...
: 4th
La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
: 4th
Chrono des Nations
Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendée is a single-day individual time trial road bicycle race held annually in October in Les Herbiers, Vendée, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI E ...
: 6th Overall
Giro Rosa
: 7th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 10th
Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
;2019
: 1st
Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries
The UCI ProSeries is the second tie ...
: 1st
![Jersey blue](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Jersey_blue.svg)
Mountains classification,
Tour of Scotland
: 3rd
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 3rd
Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...
: 3rd
La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
: 4th Overall
Tour de Bretagne
Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, also known as the Tour de Bretagne trophée des granitiers and formerly known as Ruban Granitier Breton, is an annual early season professional cycling stage race held in late April and early May in Brittany, France. T ...
: 5th
Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 6th
Amstel Gold Race
The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classics r ...
: 8th
La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 10th Overall
Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...
: 10th
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
;2020
: 1st
Giro dell'Emilia
The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar. The ...
: 2nd
La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 3rd
Road race, National Road Championships
: 4th Overall
Giro Rosa
::1st
![Jersey green](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Jersey_green.svg)
Mountains classification
: 7th
Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 8th Road race,
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
;2021
: 2nd
La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
: 3rd
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 5th
Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 5th Overall
Tour of Norway
The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, m ...
: 6th Overall
Vuelta a Burgos
Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In 2019, a multi-day wo ...
::1st Stage 3
: 7th
Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...
: 7th
Amstel Gold Race
The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classics r ...
: 8th
La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 8th
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Monuments'' of the European professional r ...
: 8th
Road race,
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
;2022
: 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour of Scandinavia
::1st Stage 5
: 2nd Overall
Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...
: 3th
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
: 5th Overall
Challenge by La Vuelta
The Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta (La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta before 2020) is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain, and has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016. Similar to La Course by Le Tour de France ...
: 5th Overall
Vuelta a Burgos
Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In 2019, a multi-day wo ...
: 5th
Road race,
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
: 5th
Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 6th
Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...
: 6th Overall
Giro d'Italia
: 7th Overall
Tour de France
The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...
::1st Stage 3
: 9th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Results timelines
See also
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List of 2015 UCI Women's Teams and riders
Listed below are the UCI Women's Teams that compete in 2015 women's road cycling events organized by the International Cycling Union ( UCI), including the 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup.
Teams overview
The country designation of each team is de ...
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
Danish female cyclists
People from Frederiksberg Municipality
Olympic cyclists of Denmark
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark
20th-century Danish women
21st-century Danish women