While Grand Tour winners Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Chris Froome (Team Sky) and Chris Horner (RadioShack-Leopard) have rightly earned the plaudits this year, 2013 was also another great season for the fast men.

From sprinting king Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) winning the Giro d’Italia’s maglia rosso to the Manx Missile being ‘dethroned’ on the Champs-Elysees by Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano), there has been no shortage of high octane battles between a world class field of sprinters.

But who shone brighter than the others? We have rounded up ten of the best sprinters on the UCI WorldTour in 2013 over the following pages.

Do you agree? Who else would you add?