Retirement class of 2023 - The riders calling time on their racing careers

Annemiek van Vleuten on the way to her fourth Giro d'Italia Donne victory and Thibaut Pinot firing up the fans at the Tour de France 2023
Annemiek van Vleuten on the way to her fourth Giro d'Italia Donne victory and Thibaut Pinot firing up the fans at the Tour de France 2023 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Every year there is a list of big-name riders who end their career in professional cycling and the class of 2023 includes a number of key riders that have transformed the sport in the last decade.

The retirement class of 2023 includes Annemiek van Vleuten who did so much to lift the level of professionalisation in women's cycling, and Peter Sagan who combined winning world titles and Classics with a knack for entertaining and shaking up the sport. 

Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.