Climber of the Year Award 2010

[Lizard]

Climber of the Year Award 2010
Every year the Radsportfreaks-Community finds together to decide which are the best of the best in our virtual cycling world. This year again, we honor the strongest climber of the year, who always showed up when there's been an ascent. Which are the strongest climbing stars of the year 2010?

How to:
Each user may nominate 3 riders. The 10 being picked most are going to be implemented in the final voting.
Nominations: 01.12.2010-15.12.2010
Votings: 16.12.2010-30.12.2010
Formalities: Please only one post in this thread per user, if you would like to correct your nominations then use the EDIT-function. Apart from that please order your nominations from 1-3 and (if you'd like to) put a comment for why the rider deserves to win the award.

[sylvainmeteo]

The 3 best Climbers of the year for me :
Coulieu
Bearclaw (Matthew)
Gourgue

[Bear]

Coulieu
Gamov
Rhodes

Coulieu - see rider of the year
Gamov - see rider of the year
Rhodes - Top results as the leader, great work for Reynolds, long career

Hard to mention just three... there are also Terray, Sheringham, etc

[el Galactico]

Coulieu
Terray
Rhodes

I could mention several other riders as well. Bearclaw,Gamov,Sheringham,Gourgue...etc

[Cerro Torre RT]

For Climbers, there's only the Giro who really counts, due to that the nominations are

Arnthor Valgeirsson
HectorIvan PalacioMontoya
Timothée Lhotellerie

As I can nominate only 3 and Gamov is yet nominated, please someone else may nominate JuaPablo RamirezLozano.

[Lizard]

So, to bring up some new names:

1. Sergei Larin: Emilia, Sabatini, Melinda, 5 Vuelta stages, and earlier some podests in april.
2. Wilmer Esmander: LBL, Giro stages, Paris-Nimes, enough for being mentioned.
3.

[Buhmann]

1. Matthew Bearclaw: Great rider, like him very much. Allways tried something.
2. Clayton Rhodes: A legende (for me)
3. Lionel Terray: Won 24 races until now...

[Robyklebt]

Verdammt schwer hier... gibt so viele.. Ignoriere mal Coulieu, wer aus Angst vor den Affen mitten in der Nacht fährt ... pah

1. L. Terray
2. B. Gourgue
3 M. Bearclaw

[HeidfeldFanclub]

1. Coulieu
2. Terray
3. Dahlin

All three won a lot of mountain stages this year, many of them in the big round tours.

[Clement-Phantom]

Coulieu
Bearclaw
Terray

no surprises ...

[The Owl]

1-Coulieu
2-Rhodes
3-Terray

[Rockstar Inc]

Colieu
Terray
Gamov

[Allagen]

i´m sorry, i have only one climber.

1. nelson muldaka
2. nelson muldaka
3. nelson muldaka

[flockmastoR]

no doubt the winner will be coulieu

so i am nominating some new names:

1. Ethan Heinhardt: not that emount of victories but some important races + tour podiums + 12k eternal points and that with 87 mountain, just won the Andes

hm have to think about more