Velo d'Or

The Vélo d'Or ( French for Golden Bike ) award is a tribute to the world's best racing cyclist of the season. The election by international sports journalists has been organized annually since 1992 by the French cycling magazine Vélo Magazine .

The election as World Cyclist of the Year also illustrates the outstanding position of the Tour de France as the most important cycling race in the world: the winner of the tour often landed on one of the two first places.

winner

year	winner	Second	Third
1992	Miguel Indurain	Tony Rominger	Claudio Chiappucci
1993	Miguel Indurain	Maurizio Fondriest	Tony Rominger
1994	Tony Rominger	Miguel Indurain	Yevgeny Bersin
1995	Laurent Jalabert	Miguel Indurain	Abraham Olano
1996	Johan Museeuw	Bjarne Riis	Alex Zülle
1997	Jan Ullrich	Laurent Jalabert	Marco Pantani
1998	Marco Pantani	Michele Bartoli	Lance Armstrong
1999	Lance Armstrong	Jan Ullrich	Andrej Tschmil
2000	Lance Armstrong	Erik Zabel	Jan Ullrich
2001	Lance Armstrong	Erik Zabel	Erik Dekker
2002	Mario Cipollini	Lance Armstrong	Paolo Bettini
2003	Lance Armstrong	Paolo Bettini	Alexander Vinokurov
2004	Lance Armstrong	Damiano Cunego	Óscar Freire
2005	Tom Boonen	Lance Armstrong	Danilo Di Luca
2006	Paolo Bettini	Alejandro Valverde	Fabian Cancellara
2007	Alberto Contador	Fabian Cancellara	Paolo Bettini
2008	Alberto Contador	Fabian Cancellara	Carlos Sastre
2009	Alberto Contador	Mark Cavendish	Fabian Cancellara
2010	Fabian Cancellara	Alberto Contador	Andy Schleck
2011	Philippe Gilbert	Cadel Evans	Mark Cavendish
2012	Bradley Wiggins	Tom Boonen	Joaquim Rodríguez
2013	Chris Froome	Vincenzo Nibali	Peter Sagan
2014	Alberto Contador	Vincenzo Nibali	Alejandro Valverde
2015	Chris Froome	Peter Sagan	Fabio Aru
2016	Peter Sagan	Chris Froome	Nairo Quintana
2017	Chris Froome	Tom Dumoulin	Peter Sagan
2018	Alejandro Valverde	Geraint Thomas	Julian Alaphilippe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In October 2012, the Vélo Magazine canceled the five-time award of Lance Armstrong, cf. Armstrong: tout doit disparaître on www.europe1.fr of October 23, 2012 .
2. ↑ Cancellara wins Vélo d'Or. rad sport news, October 26, 2010, accessed January 4, 2013 . 
3. ^ Gilbert wins 2011 Vélo d'Or. Cycling News, October 27, 2011, accessed January 4, 2013 . 
4. ^ Bradley Wiggins wins prestigious Vélo d'Or award. The Guardian , October 30, 2012, accessed January 4, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Sagan receives Vélo d'Or 2016. In: rad-net.de. December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Alejandro Valverde élu Vélo d'or 2018, Thibaut Pinot est le Vélo d'or français. October 27, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .