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Apparently, winning the Tour de France counts a lot in the voting for cycling\u2019s top individual award \u2013 or does your last name have to begin with a V? In any case, this year\u2019s Tour winners, Demi Vollering and Jonas Vingegaard, were awarded the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or for best female and male cyclists of the year at a gala ceremony in Paris late Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 26-year-old Vollering, a Dutch native who rides for women cycling\u2019s dominant team SD Worx, was a sensational winner of this year\u2019s Tour de France Femmes with Zwift, taking the yellow jersey by more than 3 minutes over her Belgian teammate Lotte Kopecky. Kopecky, this year\u2019s road race world champion, also finished just behind Vollering in the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or voting, with last year\u2019s award winner Annemiek van Vleuten in third place.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Tour, Vollering also won four prestigious spring Classics \u2013\u00a0 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne<\/a>, the Amstel Gold Race, the Strade Bianche and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a> \u2013 as well as the season\u2019s final Monument, the Tour de Romandie F\u00e9minin. She also ended the year as the highest ranked female rider in the UCI World Rankings<\/a> with 6039.8 points, far ahead of Kopecky, who is second with 4367 points.<\/p>\n

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Vollering at the 2023 Strade Bianche. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though Vingegaard did not race as prolifically as many of his V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or rivals, what probably tipped the scales in his favor was that he won the Tour de France for a second consecutive year in 2023. One of his main rivals for this year\u2019s award, Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates), also won the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or after his second Tour win, in 2021. In addition to Poga\u010dar, other candidates for the prize included this year\u2019s road race world champion Mattieu van der Poel, ITT world champion Remco Evenepoel<\/a> and the Giro d\u2019Italia winner (and former teammate of Vingegaard\u2019s at Jumbo-Visma) Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d.<\/p>\n

Though Vingegaard did not race as often as others, he won almost every race he started this year. In addition to the Tour, he won the GC of the O Gran Cami\u00f1o, the Itzulia Basque Country and the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9. He also finished second in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a after his team asked him to ride in support of Sepp Kuss, who had been leading for much of the race. Vingegaard did not attend the awards presentation, which was held as a formal ceremony for the first time. However, he expressed his gratitude in a video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big honour for me to win the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or award,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I see all the names winning it in the past, it\u2019s a crazy feeling to know now that I am the winner of it. Eddy Merckx was going to give this award to me and it\u2019s very special. He\u2019s such a big icon, and always winning. I\u2019m always trying to do the same, trying to win all the races that I am doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kopecky and van der Poel \u2013 who like Kopecky finished second in the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or voting \u2013 \u00a0did not go away empty-handed. They were the first-ever recipients of the Eddy Merckx Trophy for the best female and male Classics riders of the year. In addition, Vingegaard\u2019s Jumbo-Visma teammate Christophe Laporte, this year\u2019s European road race champion, was named best French rider of the year, while the female version of that prize was given to multi-discipline cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or has been given to male riders since 1992, but this is only the second year that women have been accorded the prize. The award is organized by the French cycling magazine V\u00e9lo, with winners elected by a group of international journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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