June 22, 2024
Championships 2024 โ Germany ๐ฉ๐ช โ Road Race WE – Donaueschingen – Bad Dรผrrheim : 134,2 km
The German National Road Race Championship is a cycling race organized by the German Cycling Federation. The event was established in 1910, with the women’s championship starting in 1968.
Franziska Koch (DSM-firmenich-PostNL) is the new German road champion after she beat Liane Lippert (Movistar) and Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) in a three-up sprint in in Bad Dรผrrheim.
Lippert was chasing her third successive title, and her fourth in total, but she had to settle for the silver medal after Koch sprang a surprise by opening her sprint with some 300m still to race.
The winning move took shape on the toughest climb to รfingen with 15km to go, when Koch and Niedermaier were the only riders who could follow Lippertโs searing acceleration. They were all part of a selection of a dozen or so riders that had formed on the front of the race with 70km or so remaining.
Once Lippert, Koch and Niedermaier forged clear, it was immediately apparent that they would fight it out for the medals, with the chasing group fragmenting on the run-in.
After the final ascent of Aasen failed to separate the leading trio, the race came down to a sprint. Lippert was the obvious favourite, but Koch played her hand perfectly, making her move from distance to land her first professional win.
Linda Riedmann (Visma-Lease a Bike) clipped away from the chasers to take fourth, a minute down, while Romy Kasper (Human Powered Health) beat Hannah Ludwig (Cofidis) to fifth place.
Results :
 is the new German road champion after she beat Liane Lippert (Movistar) and Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) in a three-up sprint in in Bad Dรผrrheim.
Lippert was chasing her third successive title, and her fourth in total, but she had to settle for the silver medal after Koch sprang a surprise by opening her sprint with some 300m still to race.
The winning move took shape on the toughest climb to รfingen with 15km to go, when Koch and Niedermaier were the only riders who could follow Lippertโs searing acceleration. They were all part of a selection of a dozen or so riders that had formed on the front of the race with 70km or so remaining.
Once Lippert, Koch and Niedermaier forged clear, it was immediately apparent that they would fight it out for the medals, with the chasing group fragmenting on the run-in.
After the final ascent of Aasen failed to separate the leading trio, the race came down to a sprint. Lippert was the obvious favourite, but Koch played her hand perfectly, making her move from distance to land her first professional win.
Linda Riedmann (Visma-Lease a Bike) clipped away from the chasers to take fourth, a minute down, while Romy Kasper (Human Powered Health) beat Hannah Ludwig (Cofidis) to fifth place.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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