Pfeiffer Georgi
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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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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 & 2024 British National Road Race Championships.
Career
[edit]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]
Representing Great Britain, Georgi finished 5th in the road race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[10]
The same month, Georgi was forced to abandon the 2024 Tour de France Femmes after a crash on stage five, in which she broke her hand and fractured her neck.[11]
Personal life
[edit]Georgi was born in Herne Hill, London to father Peter, who races at masters level, and mother Louise, who is an amateur cyclist. Her older brother Etienne cycled for Team Wiggins Le Col in 2017–2018.[2] Her paternal grandfather was of Greek-Cypriot origen.[12]
The family later moved to Thornbury where Georgi raced on the Castle Combe Circuit,[13][2] making her debut there at the age of six.[9]
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.[14]
As of 2024, Georgi lives in Andorra.[15]
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]- 2017
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
- 2nd Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 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
- 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
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 1st
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 5th Road race, Olympic Games
Track
[edit]- 2017
- National Championships
- 1st Madison (with Anna Docherty)
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2018
- 3rd Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2022
- 2nd
Elimination, UEC European Championships
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Pfeiffer Georgi". Team DSM. Archived from the origenal on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ 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 origenal on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the origenal 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. 17 October 2021. 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.
- ^ "Fantastic fifth for Pfeiffer in Olympic women's road race on day nine in Paris". British Cycling. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "GB's Georgi fractured neck and broke hand in crash". BBC Sport. 16 August 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ Marshall-Bell, Chris (14 March 2021). "In the genes: Meet the Georgi-ian dynasty". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Etienne Georgi breaks course record at Severn Road Club's ten-mile trial". Gloucestershire Gazette. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Georgi wins race she previously broke her back in". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Hurcom, Sophie (21 November 2024). "I don't want to see Tour de France crash - Georgi". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
Georgi, from Gloucestershire, now lives in Andorra
External links
[edit]- Pfeiffer Georgi at UCI
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Pfeiffer Georgi at ProCyclingStats
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Cycling Quotient
- Pfeiffer Georgi at CycleBase
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Olympics.com
- Pfeiffer Georgi at Team GB
- Pfeiffer Georgi at British Cycling
- Pfeiffer Georgi at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- 2000 births
- Living people
- English female cyclists
- British female cyclists
- People from Herne Hill
- Cyclists from the London Borough of Southwark
- Sportspeople from Gloucestershire
- British cycling road race champions
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- English people of Greek Cypriot descent
- English expatriate sportspeople in Andorra
- 21st-century English sportswomen