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Full name | Pfeiffer Zara Georgi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | PG[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Herne Hill, London, England[2] | 27 September 2000||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 British National Road Race Championships.
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]
Georgi was born in Herne Hill, London before her family moved to the West Country, where she raced on the Castle Combe Circuit,[2] making her debut there at the age of six.[9] Her brother Etienne cycled for Team Wiggins Le Col in 2017–2018. Her father Peter races at Masters level and her mother Louise is an amateur cyclist.[2] 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.[10]