Evenepoel and Van Vleuten win the Velo d'Or 2022

Remco Evenepoel and Annemiek Van Vleuten win the Velo d'Or 2022 . The two reigning world champions triumph over the competition and win the most important prize in cycling, awarded by the French newspaper Vélo Magazine with a jury made up of international journalists. With 139 and 145 points respectively, in fact, the two dominated their rivals, primarily Wout Van Aert and Lotte Kopecky , who stopped at 88 and 69 points. On the men's podium Tadej Pogacar and a ex-aequo for women between Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Elisa Longo Borghini . Filippo Ganna finished fifth among men, while Marta Cavalli, Elisa Balsamo and Silvia Persico earned the seventh, ninth and eleventh positions.

Fourth place for Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, with 80 points.

VELO D'OR RANKING:

Men

1. Remco Evenepoel 139 pts

2. Wout van Aert 88 pts

3. Tadej Pogacar 84 pts

4. Jonas Vingegaard 80 pts

5. Filippo Ganna 15 pts

6. Fabio Jakobsen, Mathieu van der Poel, Harrie Lavreysen 7 pts

9. Jai Hindley 6 pts

10. Primoz Roglic, Geraint Thomas 1 pt.

Women

1. Annemiek van Vleuten 145 pts.

2. Lotte Kopecky 69 pts.

3. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Elisa Longo Borghini 48 pts.,

5. Lorraine Wiebes 40 pts

6. Marianne Vos 27pt

7. Marta Cavalli 22 pt

8. Demi Vollering 21pt

9. Elisa Balsamo, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig 7 pt

11. Silvia Persico 1 pt

Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

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