Results

Lance Armstrong's huge popularity in his home nation has just edged him ahead of Erik Zabel in the poll for best male road rider of the year with another Erik – Dekker – taking third place. There couldn't be a bigger contrast between these two riders in the closest vote of the poll so far, with Armstrong centering his season round the Tour de France and Zabel throwing himself at everything from his natural habitat of sprint finishes to hilly road races and Six Day racing.

Jan Ullrich lands fourth after his mighty battle with Armstrong in the 2001 Tour and Levi Leipheimer completes the top five.

Full Results

                               Votes     %ge
1 Lance Armstrong                509    35.9
2 Erik Zabel                     396    28.0
3 Erik Dekker                    156    11.0
4 Jan Ullrich                     95     6.7
5 Levi Leipheimer                 39     2.8
6 Laurent Jalabert                37     2.6
7 Oscar Freire                    21     1.5
8 Oscar Sevilla                   17     1.2
9 Stuart O'Grady                  15     1.1
10 Gilberto Simoni                12     0.8
11 George Hincapie                12
12 Trent Klasna                   11
13 David Millar                   10
14 Cadel Evans                     9
15 Rick Verbrugge                  6
16 Richard Virenque                5
17 Jens Voigt                      5
18 Johan Museeuw                   4
19 Daniele Nardello                4
20 David Rebellin                  4
21 Santiago Botero                 3
22 Andrea Tafi                     2
23 Angel Casero                    2
24 Danilo Di Luca                  2
25 Danny Pate                      2
26 Dario Frigo                     2
27 Mario Cipollini                 2
28 Scott Sunderland                2
29 Jose María Jimenez              2
30 Paulo Bettini                   1
31 Brad McGee                      1
32 Servais Knaven                  1
33 Gorden McCauley                 1
34 Greg Scott                      1
35 Ivan Basso                      1
36 Javier Otchoa                   1
37 José Azevedo                    1
38 Jose Rubeierra                  1
39 Juan Miguel Mercado             1
40 Klaus Mikael Moller             1
41 Laszlo Bodrogi                  1
42 nicolas andré                   1
43 Paco Pil                        1
44 paolo bettini                   1
45 Pedro Horrillo                  1
46 Peter Farazijn                  1
47 Yaroslav Popovych               1
48 Raimondas Rumsas                1
49 Robert Millar                   1
50 Roberto Laiseka                 1
51 Roland Green                    1
52 Rolf Aldag                      1
53 S. Chavanel                     1
54 Serge Baguet                    1
55 Servais Knaven                  1
56 Shaun Palmer                    1
57 Tim Johnson                     1

TOTAL                           1416