Pfeiffer Georgi
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Full name | Pfeiffer Zara Georgi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | PG[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Herne Hill, London, England[2] | 27 September 2000||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Team dsm–firmenich PostNL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Classics specialist[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2019– | Team Sunweb[4][5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pfeiffer Zara Georgi (born 27 September 2000) is an English professional
racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL.[6] She won the 2021 & 2023 British National Road Race Championships
.
In 2017 she won the
Healthy Ageing Tour, and Watersley Ladies Challenge. In September 2021, she took her first professional win at La Choralis Fourmies Feminine in France,[2] and the following month Georgi won the women's road race in the National Road Championships.[8] She competed in the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, where she worked as a domestique in the road race with responsibility for leading Lizzie Deignan into the course's climbs, earning praise from the latter.[9]
Personal life
Georgi was born in Herne Hill, London before her family moved to the West Country, where she raced on the Castle Combe Circuit,[2] making her debut there at the age of six.[9] Her brother Etienne cycled for Team Wiggins Le Col in 2017–2018. Her father Peter races at Masters level and her mother Louise is an amateur cyclist.[2] In 2020 she broke two vertebrae in a crash during Classic Brugge–De Panne,[2] a race in Belgium she went on to win in 2023, recording her first victory in the Women's WorldTour.[10]
Major results
Road
- 2017
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
- 2nd Overall EPZ Omloop van BorseleJuniors
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 6th Road race
- 7th Time trial
- 10th Trofeo Alfredo Binda Juniors
- 2018
- 1st Healthy Ageing Tour
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda Juniors
- 2nd Overall EPZ Omloop van BorseleJuniors
- 4th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
- 2019
- 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 8th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2021
- 1st Road race, National Championships
- 1st La Choralis Fourmies
- 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 4th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites Dames
- 5th GP Eco-Struct
- 6th Ronde van Drenthe
- 6th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Young rider classification
- 8th Overall The Women's Tour
- 2022
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Road race, National Championships
- 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 5th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour
- 1st Young rider classification
- 6th GP Eco-Struct
- 9th Omloop van het Hageland
- 9th Paris–Roubaix
- 9th Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 2023
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
- 1st Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 1st Dwars door de Westhoek
- 4th Road race, UEC European Championships
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 7th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Paris–Roubaix
- 9th Strade Bianche
- 2024
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
Track
- 2017
- National Championships
- 1st Madison (with Anna Docherty)
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 2018
- 3rd Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2022
- 2nd Elimination, UEC European Championships
References
- ^ a b "Pfeiffer Georgi". Team DSM. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "From learning to walk to champion in 12 months". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Jary, Rachel (1 October 2021). "Pfeiffer Georgi: a Classics star in the making". Rouleur. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ "Team Sunweb". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ "Rising star: junior Gent-Wevelgem winner Pfeiffer Georgi". Rouleur.cc. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Pfeiffer Georgi wins British National Road Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ a b Jary, Rachel (7 January 2022). "British Champion Pfeiffer Georgi on her big win, 2022 ambitions and the Tour de France Femmes". Rouleur. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "Georgi wins race she previously broke her back in". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
External links
- Pfeiffer Georgi at UCI
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Cycling Archives
- Pfeiffer Georgi at ProCyclingStats
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Cycling Quotient
- Pfeiffer Georgi at CycleBase