Now in her eighth year with Picnic PostNL, the 25-year-old Brit is one of the key leaders for the Dutch team in the Classics, but it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Georgi.
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In 2023, Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic-PostNL) shot onto the scene when she won Brugge-De Panne out from under the sprinters’ noses. She continued to progress in the Classics that season and by 2024, she was a certified Classics specialist. Only 23 years old, Georgi finished third at Paris-Roubaix Femmes after already gathering a few top 10s in earlier races. But a few months later, her career took a turn. Georgi was part of the crash that rocked the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the crash that lost Demi Vollering the yellow jersey and changed the outcome of the race.
Georgi fractured her neck and broke her hand in the crash. Her season was over, but what she didn’t expect was the lasting impact the incident would have on her 2025 season.
“I think I’m only now just getting over [the crash],” Georgi told Escape Collective. “I’m still working with a psychologist on it. I think the whole of last year, it really affected my performance. More mentally than physically.”
“Physically, it was pretty hard, three months off, not on the road. Not able to train properly in the winter, but just getting back into the peloton, for me, I really struggled with it, and being on the descents again and seeing the dangers. I think the effects of that last way last longer than I expected.”
When she returned to the peloton the following year, she wasn’t able to pick up where she left off. The races ticked by, but the same Georgi who animates the most difficult races wasn’t there.
“Only now looking back, I realized that I was way too hard on myself last year,” Georgi said. “I had a really good 2024 season, I think it was my best year, and then I kind of expected that once I was physically recovered, I was just going to jump straight back into it and be able to perform the same.”
“To not be able to do that was really hard for me, and I don’t think I gave myself enough credit. The position I came from, and that it could have been way worse. It could have been the end of my career.”
Georgi during Gent-Wevelgem in 2025
“Going back in that environment, your brain’s just trying to preserve itself, and it doesn’t want to be in that danger. Looking back, I realize that was a hard thing to do and that it’s normal that it took a long time to feel comfortable again.”
In September, a crash at the Simac Ladies Tour and a broken wrist ended Georgi’s 2025 season for good.
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