Georgi, returned to the event that she fractured two vertebrae during the 2020 races , claiming an impressive victory in 4 hours 17min 12sec  in the 173 kilometres event, taking Team DSM to glory in her first UCI Women's World Tour victory. 

The 22-year-old, silver medallist in the under-23 race at last year's UCI World Championships, finished 70 seconds ahead of second place Elisa Balsamo of Italy, last year's winner, and third place Lorena Wiebes of The Netherlands, winner of the event in 2020, the year that Georgi crashed.

Following the catastrophic injuries she suffered in that incident, Georgi had to undergo intensive physiotherapy to recover.  

"I'm so happy," said Georgi, according to the BBC.

"Pretty unexpected for me, actually.

"We came into it with a plan to race aggressively, and the whole team did that.

"I just went as hard as I could. 

"My legs were feeling pretty tired at that point, so I was just giving it everything."

Belgium's Jasper Philipsen had to survive a drag race to the finish in the men's 221.2km race, part of the UCI World Tour, edging past second-placed Dutchman Olav Kooij and fellow Belgian Yves Lampaert in third. 

The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider finished the race in 4:38:52, with Kooij and Lampaert less than a second behind him.

Philipsen took the lead with 16km remaining, as Lampaert, the 2020 winner, had the lead but could not catch him after he took the lead.

"We had a really strong team and we were really paying attention and we were always in the front," the 25-year-old Philipsen, winner of two stages of last year's Tour de France, told Velo News.

"We can be really proud of this, we rode a good race.

"I knew this morning, it wasn’t going to be a normal sprint but in the end, it was a really good group with all of the sprinters. 

"There were a lot of fast guys in there but I felt really good."