Team Sky's Chris Froome wins Velo d'Or for best cyclist of 2017
Last Updated: 17/10/17 12:04pm
Sky's British cyclist Christopher Froome wins the Velo d'Or for best cyclist of 2017
Team Sky's Chris Froome has won the Velo d'Or for the best cyclist of 2017.
The Team Sky leader succeeds three-time world champion Peter Sagan and was awarded his trophy on Tuesday during the presentation of the Tour de France route.
Froome enjoyed a spectacular year, becoming the third man to complete the Tour-Vuelta double in the same season, after Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault in 1978, when the Vuelta was still held in the spring before the Tour.
The four-time Tour de France champion said: "It's obviously a season I will remember all my life."
Froome will be chasing a record-equaling fifth Tour victory next year to move level with Anquetil, Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain.
