We wanted to have an aggressive race and be out front with at least one rider. Luckily, I was the one who got to get away. I've really been looking forward to getting into a real breakaway, and today I succeeded, so I'm really happy," Koerner said.
It would have been better to have more people out there, but the two of us cooperated well, and we had a nice day together. In the end, I managed to get what I came for, I'm happy about that," Koerner said about her day ahead of the pack.
The Dane is another lateral entrant into women's cycling: In her youth, she practiced high diving and had won three Danish championships at age 18. But after injuring her hip and back when she fell badly in the diving pool, she switched to road cycling, buying her first race bike in 2019.
For 2022, Koerner signed with the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team, still her current squad, and in 2023, she won the Danish road championships from an early breakaway, finishing with a 32-kilometre solo.
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