When Franziska Koch won Germany’s junior omnium title in 2017, she wouldn’t have imagined that those same track skills would carry her to an improbable Paris-Roubaix Femmes victory almost a decade later.
The 25-year-old outfoxed two of the greatest riders of this generation, Marianne Vos and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, a Visma-Lease a Bike pairing with 29 world titles between them, to bag her biggest career win to date on Sunday.
