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Lotte Kopecky

Team SD Worx

Lotte Kopecky

Personal Details:

Nationality Belgium
Date of birth 10/11/1995

Biography:

Classics star and track World Champion Lotte Kopecky, born November 10th, 1995 in Rumst, Belgium, turned professional with the Belgian Continental Topsport-Vlaanderen-Pro-Duo team in 2014. Her first win came two years later, in the low-profile Trofee Maerten Wynants one-day race.
A talented track racer, Kopecky has taken two World Track Championships gold medals in the Madison, in 2017 and again in 2022 and another in the points. Also on the track she has netted various European championships, World Cup and national titles.
In 2020 in the revised late season,  Kopecky won both the Belgian national road race title and, for the second time of four to date in her career, the national time trial. She also netted a stage victory at the Giro d'Italia Donne and podium finishes at Le Samyn des Dames, Gent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Flanders, and Brugge-De Panne.
That string of success was enough for her to move from her longstanding squad, Lotto Soudal Ladies to Liv Racing (formerly CCC-Liv) in a one-year deal for 2021, the first Women’s WorldTeam of her career. That season she once again clinched both the time trial and road titles in the Belgian National Championships.
Kopecky’s biggest success on the road has been in one-day Classics, where in 2022,  racing for her current SDWorx squad, she triumphed on home soil at the Ronde van Vlaanderen as well as in the Strade Bianche in Italy. On top of that in her most stellar year to date Kopecky secured a second place in Paris-Roubaix, and she rounded it out with a silver medal in the World Championships road race.

Key results

Winner Ronde van Vlaanderen 2022

Winner Strade Bianche 2022


Winner stage Giro d’Italia Donne 2020


Winner Belgian National Road Championships


Winner Belgian National Time Trial Championships


Winner stage Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta 2021


Winner  stage of Vuelta a Burgos 2022


Winner stage of Thüringen Ladies Tour 2021


Second place Paris-Roubaix 2022


Second place World Road Championships 2022


Winner World Track Championships Madison, 2017 and 2022, Points 2018


Silver medallist World Road Championships, 2022

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