Pfeiffer Georgi is made of tough stuff. ‘I just love bad weather and cold, really dramatic races,’ chuckles the 23-year-old, who after a breakthrough 2023 season is now Britain’s most in-form female rider. ‘I’ve always loved training if there was sideways rain and wind, just because I felt like I was doing something different and dramatic. That has always excited me, so races like Flanders and Roubaix would be my dream races to win. They’re so iconic and so hard.’
Georgi’s natural grit, physical durability and emotional resilience give her an edge, but these qualities also explain how the DSM road captain achieved such an astonishing comeback, from lying in a ditch with a broken back following a horrific crash at Brugge-De Panne in 2020 to claiming her first WorldTour win at the same race last sesason.
She also won Binche-Chimay-Binche and Dwars door de Westhoek, secured top ten finishes at Paris-Roubaix (8th), Strade Bianche (9th), Amstel Gold (7th) and Omloop het Nieuwsblad (5th), and bagged her second national road race title on an attritional 132km course, with an explosive final climb in Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
‘Getting my first WorldTour win at De Panne was an unexpected day for me, and that gave me a lot of confidence that I can be one of the best in the races that suit me,’ says Georgi. ‘It’s really exciting to see where I could be, and what rider
