Each year, Cycling Weekly readers select a 'Rider of the Year', and for 2023, Mathieu van der Poel claimed the glory - gaining 35% of the total votes.
If anyone was going to do it, it had to be him. Stood atop the Glasgow World Championship podium in August, Mathieu van der Poel completed the bridge he had been building between his beloved cyclo-cross and road race worlds. He became the first man to hold both World Championships at the same time.
