{"id":11713,"date":"2026-06-28T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:52:30","slug":"franziska-koch-two-time-german-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/franziska-koch-two-time-german-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Franziska Koch, two-time German champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This weekend\u2019s German Championships will go down as a memorable moment in Franziska Koch\u2019s career. Over the course of two days, the team\u2019s rider achieved a historic double: having won the time trial on Friday, she cemented her dominance on Sunday by retaining her title in the road race at Bad Liebenstein. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time trial, Franziska Koch put on a masterclass of power. She covered the 26.2-kilometre course in 33&#8217;58&#8221;, averaging 46.3 km\/h, thereby securing her first victory in the discipline and finishing 25 seconds ahead of defending champion Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon\/\/SRAM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two days later, she cemented her dominance of German cycling by winning the road race for the third year running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A double victory that illustrates the sheer breadth of talent of a rider who had already made a lasting impression this season by winning Paris\u2013Roubaix, beating Marianne Vos and Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot in a sprint finish at the Roubaix Velodrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">POV: You\u2019re a three-time consecutive German Champion \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea<br><br>Congratulations Franziska ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UlXFlf8Lbx\">pic.twitter.com\/UlXFlf8Lbx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FDJ &#8211; SUEZ (@FDJ_SUEZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDJ_SUEZ\/status\/2070910137125245149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend\u2019s German Championships will go down as a memorable moment in Franziska Koch\u2019s career. Over the course of two days, the team\u2019s rider achieved a historic double: having won the time trial on Friday, she cemented her dominance on Sunday by retaining her title in the road race at Bad Liebenstein. In the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-11713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race","tag-franziska-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11729,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions\/11729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}