8. Wilco Kelderman – chosen by Joe Laverick

Wilco Kelderman was relatively silent this Tour de France, yet his final general classification position of 5th is impressive. Stage 2 brought his highest placed finish with a 4th place up the Mur-de-Bretagne. After that, he rode steady yet consistently. While he will admit that his time loss in the first time trial was disappointing, I am willing to bet that he would have taken 5th place overall in the Tour de France at the start of this year. Back in January, while on his first training camp with his new team, Kelderman was hit by a car and suffered both a broken vertebrae and a concussion. Thus his performance at the Tour becomes worthy of even more recognition.