Pfeiffer Georgi
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.
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| Full name | Pfeiffer Zara Georgi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | PG[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 September 2000 Herne Hill, London, England[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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One-day races and Classics
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In 2017 she won the Gent–Wevelgem junior race and came second overall in the EPZ Omloop van Borsele.[7] In 2018, she won the junior races Trofeo Da Moreno (junior race of Trofeo Alfredo Binda), 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 edit
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 edit
Road edit
- 2017
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
- 2nd Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Points classification
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 6th Road race
- 7th Time trial
- 10th Trofeo Alfredo Binda Juniors
- 2018
- 1st Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda Juniors
- 2nd Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
- 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 edit
- 2017
- National Championships
- 1st Madison (with Anna Docherty)
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 2018
- 3rd Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2022
- 2nd Elimination, UEC European Championships
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ . 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 edit
- Pfeiffer Georgi at UCI
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Cycling Archives
- Pfeiffer Georgi at ProCyclingStats
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Cycling Quotient
- Pfeiffer Georgi at CycleBase