London Bike Show, the UK’s largest cycling and triathlon exhibition and Cycling UK, the national cycling charity, have today announced the winners of the inaugural Women’s Cycling Awards. Our Hannah was nominated, but was more than happy to lose out in such a great field of (proper) writers. Congratulations to all the winners!
The full press release:
Originally scheduled to take place on the opening day of the postponed London Bike Show, the awards were announced via the event social media channels.
The awards recognise some of the outstanding accomplishments in women’s cycling in the last 12 months, with the aim of inspiring many more women to get on bikes and encourage those who do, to push themselves to even greater feats.
Consisting of a total of 12 categories, 11 of which had shortlists selected by a judging panel of high profile women working in the cycling industry, the awards include a wide range of categories from Pro Rider of the Year to Volunteer of the Year and Unsung Cycling Heroine. The winners were then selected by public vote on the Cycling UK website where thousands of votes were cast.
An Outstanding Achievement Award winner was selected from the other 11 award winners by the judging panel once the public vote had closed.
It was awarded to the winner that the panel deemed to have made the most outstanding contribution to women’s cycling within the last twelve months, considering the impact, the reach they have, how they have benefited women’s cycling and the ability of their achievement to inspire more women to cycle.
The online ‘ceremony’ featured a video intro from host Anna Glowinski and messages from various award winners. All winners will receive a custom Women’s Cycling Awards jersey created by Primal.
And the winners are…
Women’s Cycling Writer of the Year – Emily Chappell
Women’s Cycling Event of the Year – The Women’s Tour
Women’s Cycling Team of the Year – Canyon – SRAM
Women’s Cycle Clothing Brand of the Year – Stolen Goat
Women’s Bike Brand of the Year – Liv
Volunteer of the Year – Sarah Javaid
Cycling Heroine – Fiona Kolbinger
Influential Woman of the Year – Dame Sarah Storey
Cycling Club of the Year – InternationElles
Rising Star – Eme Cosh
Pro-Rider of the Year – Annemiek van Vleuten
Outstanding Achievement – Annemiek van Vleuten
To view the video intro and messages from some of the winners, see the London Bike Show social media channels –
Facebook – thelondonbikeshow
Twitter – londonbikeshow
Instagram – thelondonbikeshow
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And because she wrote it, is modest and wouldn’t dream of mentioning it herself, I will – Hannah was shortlisted for the writer of the year award.
And I voted for her…….not received my cheque yet, probably lost in the post
Well done Hannah for being shortlisted. Top honours next year, for sure.