Trofeo Alfredo Binda, one of women’s cycling’s longest-standing races, was not on Lotte Kopecky’s calendar – until Friday, two days before the event. Her teammate, Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, was still recovering from a crash sustained at Nokere-Koerse.
But despite her late call up and modest ambitions from SD Worx-Protime’s sports director, Anna van der Breggen —“We have absolutely no expectations of her, because the change is last-minute” — Kopecky sprinted to second place on her debut, losing out to Lidl-Trek’s Elisa Balsamo. Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) finished third.
