Vélo d'Or

(3rd award)

FRA Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (1st award) (4 awards) The Vélo d'Or (French for "Golden Bicycle") is an annual cycle racing award, given to the cyclist considered to have performed the best over the racing season. It is awarded by the French cycling magazine Vélo Magazine, with the winner chosen by a panel of international cycling journalists. The Vélo d'Or is considered one of cycling's highest individual honors, similar to the Ballon d'Or in football.

Since 2022, the Vélo d'Or Femmes has also been awarded to the best female cyclist of the season. Both trophies are presented each year at the Pavillon Gabriel in Paris, alongside several sub-categories: the Eddy Merckx Trophy, awarded to the best classics rider since 2023, the Chris Hoy Trophy, awarded to the best Olympics discipline rider since 2024. There are also awards for French riders: from 1992 to 2022, the Vélo d'Or français was given to the best overall French cyclist. Since 2025, this has been subdivided into two awards: the "Trophée Bernard Hinault" for male cyclists and the "Trophée Jeannie Longo" for female cyclists.

Alberto Contador holds the record for the most awards, winning the Vélo d'Or four times: in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2014. Lance Armstrong initially won the Vélo d'Or five times, but these victories were nullified after the USADA stripped him of his Tour de France titles following doping allegations and his eventual confession. The Vélo d'Or awards for these years were not reassigned to the runners-up.

Men's awards

Vélo d'Or winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1992	Miguel Indurain	Tony Rominger	Claudio Chiappucci
1993	Miguel Indurain	Maurizio Fondriest	Tony Rominger
1994	Tony Rominger	Miguel Indurain	Eugeni Berzin
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	Andrei Tchmil
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 Vinokourov
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
2019	Julian Alaphilippe	Egan Bernal	Primož Roglič
2020	Primož Roglič	Tadej Pogačar	Wout van Aert
2021	Tadej Pogačar	Primož Roglič	Wout van Aert
2022	Remco Evenepoel	Wout van Aert	Tadej Pogačar
2023	Jonas Vingegaard	Mathieu van der Poel	Tadej Pogačar
2024	Tadej Pogačar	Remco Evenepoel	Mathieu van der Poel
2025	Tadej Pogačar	Jonas Vingegaard	Mathieu van der Poel

Wins per rider

Rank	Rider	Wins	Second	Third
1	{{sortname	Alberto	Contador}}	4	1	0
2	{{sortname	Tadej	Pogačar}}	3	1	2
3	{{sortname	Christopher	Froome}}	3	1	0
4	{{sortname	Miguel	Indurain}}	2	2	0
5	{{sortname	Fabian	Cancellara}}	1	2	2
6	{{sortname	Paolo	Bettini}}	1	1	2
{{sortname	Peter	Sagan}}	1	1	2
8	{{sortname	Tony	Rominger}}	1	1	1
{{sortname	Jan	Ullrich}}	1	1	1
{{sortname	Alejandro	Valverde}}	1	1	1
{{sortname	Primož	Roglič}}	1	1	1
12	{{sortname	Laurent	Jalabert}}	1	1	0
{{sortname	Tom	Boonen}}	1	1	0
{{sortname	Remco	Evenepoel}}	1	1	0
{{sortname	Jonas	Vingegaard}}	1	1	0
15	{{sortname	Marco	Pantani}}	1	0	1
{{sortname	Julian	Alaphilippe}}	1	0	1
17	{{sortname	Johan	Museeuw}}	1	0	0
{{sortname	Mario	Cipollini}}	1	0	0
{{sortname	Philippe	Gilbert}}	1	0	0
{{sortname	Bradley	Wiggins}}	1	0	0
22	{{sortname	Erik	Zabel}}	0	2	0
{{sortname	Vincenzo	Nibali}}	0	2	0
23	{{sortname	Wout	van Aert}}	0	1	2
{{sortname	Mathieu	van der Poel}}	0	1	2
25	{{sortname	Mark	Cavendish}}	0	1	1
26	{{sortname	Maurizio	Fondriest}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Bjarne	Riis}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Michele	Bartoli}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Damiano	Cunego}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Cadel	Evans}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Tom	Dumoulin}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Geraint	Thomas}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Egan	Bernal}}	0	1	0
34	{{sortname	Claudio	Chiappucci}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Evgueni	Berzin}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Abraham	Olano}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Alex	Zülle}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Lance	Armstrong}}			1
{{sortname	Andreï	Tchmil}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Erik	Dekker}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Alexandre	Vinokourov}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Óscar	Freire}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Danilo	Di Luca}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Carlos	Sastre}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Andy	Schleck}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Joaquim	Rodríguez}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Fabio	Aru}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Nairo	Quintana}}	0	0	1

Eddy Merckx Trophy (best classics rider)

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2023	Mathieu van der Poel	Tadej Pogačar	Remco Evenepoel
2024	Tadej Pogačar	Mathieu van der Poel	Jasper Philipsen
2025	Tadej Pogačar	Mathieu van der Poel	Remco Evenepoel

Wins per rider

Rank	Rider	Wins	Second	Third
1	{{sortname	Tadej	Pogačar}}	2	1	0
2	{{sortname	Mathieu	van der Poel}}	1	2	0
3	{{sortname	Remco	Evenepoel}}	0	0	2
4	{{sortname	Jasper	Philipsen}}	0	0	1

Women's awards

Vélo d'Or Femmes winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2022	Annemiek van Vleuten	Lotte Kopecky	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
2023	Demi Vollering	Lotte Kopecky	Annemiek van Vleuten
2024	Lotte Kopecky	Demi Vollering	Kasia Niewiadoma
2025	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	Demi Vollering	Lorena Wiebes

Wins per rider

Rank	Rider	Wins	Second	Third
1	{{sortname	Lotte	Kopecky}}	1	2	0
{{sortname	Demi	Vollering}}	1	2	0
3	{{sortname	Annemiek	van Vleuten}}	1	0	1
{{sortname	Pauline	Ferrand-Prévot}}	1	0	1
4	{{sortname	Kasia	Niewiadoma}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Lorena	Wiebes}}	0	0	1

Eddy Merckx Trophy (best classics rider)

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2023	Lotte Kopecky	Demi Vollering	Alison Jackson
2024	Lotte Kopecky	Elisa Longo Borghini	Marianne Vos
2025	Lorena Wiebes	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	Demi Vollering

Wins per rider

Rank	Rider	Wins	Second	Third
1	{{sortname	Lotte	Kopecky}}	2	0	0
2	{{sortname	Lorena	Wiebes}}	1	0	0
3	{{sortname	Demi	Vollering}}	0	1	1
4	{{sortname	Pauline	Ferrand-Prévot}}	0	1	0
{{sortname	Elisa	Longo Borghini}}	0	1	0
5	{{sortname	Marianne	Vos}}	0	0	1
{{sortname	Alison	Jackson}}	0	0	1