Georgi wins in Belgium two years after breaking back in same race

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British cyclist Pfeiffer Georgi smiles and puts her arms up arsenic she crosses the enactment to triumph Classic Brugge-De Panne

Britain's Pfeiffer Georgi took a good solo triumph astatine the Classic Brugge-De Panne 2 and a fractional years aft breaking her backmost successful the aforesaid race.

Georgi, 22, kicked wide of a six-rider breakaway radical with 7km to spell and crossed the enactment 1 minutes 10 seconds earlier the chasing battalion successful Belgium.

She had to learn however to locomotion again aft suffering 2 fractured vertebrae successful a clang during the 2020 edition.

It is the Team DSM rider's archetypal UCI Women's WorldTour victory.

"I'm truthful happy," said Georgi. "Pretty unexpected for me, actually

"We came into it with a program to contention aggressively, and the full squad did that.

"I conscionable went arsenic hard arsenic I could. My legs were feeling beauteous bushed astatine that point, truthful I was conscionable giving it everything."

After the 173km contention was concisely neutralised pursuing a bid of crashes successful the aboriginal stages, a radical of 10 riders, including Georgi, compatriot Alice Barnes and pre-race favourites Elisa Balsamo and Lorena Wiebes got distant with conscionable nether 60km to go.

Former British nationalist champion Georgi helped interruption the starring radical up further successful crosswinds connected the 2nd thigh of the finishing circuit, leaving six riders retired front.

Knowing Balsamo and Wiebes are faster finishers, DSM team-mates Georgi and Megan Jastrab repeatedly attacked, attempting to spell solo, earlier the British rider made a determination stick.

The chasing radical could not get organised, allowing Georgi to enactment distant to the line, with Italy's Balsamo beating Dutch rider Wiebes successful the sprint for 2nd place, with American Jastrab fourth.

Women's Classic Brugge-De Panne results