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World champion Lotte Kopecky won her first women’s Paris-Roubaix as Great Britain’s Pfeiffer Georgi claimed a podium place in a sprint finish. <\/b><\/p>\n
Georgi, 23, led out a six-strong group in the Roubaix Velodrome before being overtaken in the finishing straight. <\/p>\n
Italy’s Elisa Balsamo was second but Georgi just edged out the Netherlands’ three-time world champion Marianne Vos on the line to finish third.<\/p>\n
Britain’s Tom Pidcock is a late entry into the men’s race on Sunday. <\/p>\n
“This was the goal of the season,” said SD Worx-Protime rider Kopecky, 28, who was fifth in the Tour of Flanders last Sunday and won Strade Bianche in March.<\/p>\n
The race, which featureed almost 30km of cobbles, was decided by a breakaway group of six riders that came together with just under 12km of the 148.5km route remaining.<\/p>\n
They stayed together going into the velodrome before reigning British champion Georgi hit the front. <\/p>\n
“It was so hard and so close on the line, my legs completely clamped up, I just wanted it so bad,” said DSM-Firmenich’s Georgi, who believed she had finished fourth before the final results were revealed on the stadium screen.<\/p>\n
“I can’t believe it. This is a dream race. I know it is not the win but it means a lot. Some of these girls were my heroes growing up so to stand on the podium with them is pretty crazy for me,” she added.<\/p>\n
Fellow Briton Zoe Backstedt, 19, who rides for Canyon\/Sram Racing, finished 28 seconds back in the second group in 16th place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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