Daria Pikulik sprints to victory at Konvert Koerse

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Julie De Wilde ahead of Valentine Fortin to complete podium

MODENA ITALY JULY 02 Daria Pikulik of Poland and Team Human Powered Health reacts after the 34th Giro dItalia Donne 2023 Stage 3 a 1182km stage from Formigine to Modena UCIWWT on July 02 2023 in Modena Italy Photo by Dario BelingheriGetty Images
Poland's Daria Pikulik of Human Powered Health (Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
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Daria Pikulik (Human Powered Health) wons Konvert Koerse with a powerful kick in a reduced bunch sprint on Friday for her third victory of the season.

Julie De Wilde (Fenix-Deceuninck) outdistanced Valentine Fortin (Cofidis Women) at the line to round off the podium. A reduced front group of 11 more riders rolled across the line in Kortrijk to complete the 126.2km one-day race in 3:09:50.

“It was an amazing feeling to win again this season,” Pikulik said at the finish. “This year has been hard for me but I’m still there and I’m still trying so I’m grateful to the whole team for always believing in me.

“That was a perfect job and a really good day for us. The team put me in such a good position with a perfect lead-out so all I had to was just finish the job for them.”

In the bunch sprint behind, her teammates Marjolein van’t Geloof and Lily Williams sprinted to eighth and 14th, respectively, scoring crucial UCI points in the process. 

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Jackie Tyson
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Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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