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 Dürrheim.
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 Öfingen with 15km to go, when Koch and Niedermaier were the only riders who could follow Lippert’s 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.
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