OTLEY have completed a remarkable British Cycling double.

Lizzie Armitstead's UCI World Championship winning ride in the United States in September was voted Ride of the Year by fans on the British Cycling website.

Runner-up was 16-year-old Tom Pidcock for his eighth place in the junior men's category at the UEC European Championships in Huijbergen last month in what was only his eighth cyclo-cross ride and his first overseas.

Fans were asked to choose from a shortlist of 14 performances from Great Britain Cycling Team riders after what has been another fantastic year across the disciplines.

Armitstead's ride, in which she outsprinted Anna van der Breggen to claim her maiden rainbow jersey, polled 26 per cent of the vote – ahead of Pidcock (18 per cent), whose stunning ride came in the Netherlands, and Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby, who were third on ten per cent.

Bate and his pilot Duggleby won gold in the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in South Africa in September.

In a message for British Cycling fans, Armitstead – who received the coveted Cycle Industry's Golden Jubilee Trophy – said: "Thanks for voting for my UCI World Championship victory as the British Cycling Ride of the Year against tough competition.

"It really was one of those days when everything went right after all the hard work and planning. Everything came together on the day and it is a dream come true to wear the rainbow stripes. Thanks for all the support this year."

British Cycling president Bob Howden, who witnessed Armitstead's triumph in Virginia, said: "This was a phenomenal performance and clearly one which captured the imagination of cycling fans in this country.

"Lizzie's victory was a landmark moment in the history of British Cycling. She represents the best of our great sport and deserves all of the praise she has had from across cycling and the wider sporting community since her victory in Richmond.

"I was very proud to have been there to see her victory in person. Her coolness under pressure in that final kilometre is the hallmark of all the great champions of cycling."

The other nominees were Rachel Atherton (UCI downhill mountain bike world champion), Nikki Harris (UEC European Cyclo-Cross Championship bronze), Liam Phillips (UCI BMX Supercross World Cup champion), Vicky Brown (Cycle Speedway world champion), Mark Stewart (UCI Track Cycling World Cup winner), Laurie Greenland (UCI downhill mountain bike world champion), Bethany Shriever (UEC BMX European Cup winner in Manchester), Gabriel Cullaigh (Course de la Paix stage one winner), Laura Trott (UCI Track Cycling World Cup omnium winner), Great Britain men's and women's cycle speedway teams (Ashes winners) and Dame Sarah Storey (UCI Para-cycling Road World Championship winner).

The shortlist of 14 was chosen by an expert panel including Great Britain Cycling Team technical director Shane Sutton, British Cycling cycle sport and membership director Jonny Clay (from Horsforth), Sky Sports cycling journalist Orla Chennaoui and British Cycling president Bob Howden, from Yorkshire, with the awards being hosted by British Cycling in partnership with the Bicycle Association.

Meanwhile, in the Yorkshire Points Series cyclo-cross event at York Sports Village, there were victories for Wibsey's Euan Cameron (youth), Eldwick's Sophie Thackray (female junior) and Lucy Naylor (under-16 girls), while Thackray and Birkenshaw's Billy Harding were second in the women's and men's races, Harding finishing in front of Odsal's George Fox and Eldwick's Rob Thackray, who were third and fourth.

Chris Taylor won the men's over-45 category, while John Hick was second in the men's over-50s and Paul Milnes third in the men's over 60s.