Paris-Roubaix Femmes: Kopecky Breaks Through in Velodrome Sprint

Team SD Worx-Protime’s Lotte Kopecky prolonged her profession haul of Cycling Monuments to 3 and snapped a string of near-misses this 12 months in the cobbled classics by taking the ultimate dash in the velodrome to win the 2024 Paris-Roubaix. While Kopecky got here in as a prime favourite and regarded just like the strongest rider in the profitable breakaway between her, Visma-Lease-a-Bike legend Marianne Vos, DSM-Firmenich’s Pfeiffer Georgi, Lidl-Trek’s Elisa Balsamo and FDJ’s Amber Kraak, Kopecky needed to take care of Trek’s two-rider dynamic, as Balsamo had the advantage of a large day from teammate Ellen van Dijk continuously pressuring the leaders with robust assaults and accelerations. But Kopecky saved her cool, realizing that she had the pace benefit and that Balsamo had proven weak spot in the ultimate cobbles secteurs. She simply got here by the middle of the group charging to the road for the win, with Balsamo taking second on the left aspect, forward of Georgi and Vos.

Results:

1. KOPECKY Lotte, Team SD Worx – Protime, 3:47:13
2. BALSAMO Elisa, Lidl – Trek
3. GEORGI Pfeiffer, Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
4. VOS Marianne, Team Visma | Lease a Bike
5. KRAAK Amber, FDJ – SUEZ
6. VAN DIJK Ellen, Lidl – Trek, 0:06
7. WIEBES Lorena, Team SD Worx – Protime, 0:28
8. BERTEAU Victoire, Cofidis Women Team
9. LE NET Marie, FDJ – SUEZ
10. (LE COURT) PIENAAR Kimberley, AG Insurance – Soudal Team

Denain – Roubaix 148.5 km

Two days of Roubaix-ing, are you able to get higher than that?

Expected end time: 17:20-17:45 CEST

Queen of the Queen of the Classics: Marianne Vos

Somewhere deep inside i hve the sense Kopecky will pull off the win simply the best way it appeared inevitable a couple of weeks in the past. But I can also’t shake the impression from final week that she is on a downward trajectory, not an upward one. So who is perhaps there to pounce…….

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