Zoe Bäckstedt

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Zoe Bäckstedt
2021 UEC Track Jun & U23 European Championships 043.jpg
Bäckstedt in 2021
Personal information
Born (2004-09-24) 24 September 2004 (age 17)
Pontyclun[1]
Team information
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
  • Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Medal record
Women's road cycling
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Flanders Junior road race
Silver medal – second place 2021 Flanders Junior time trial
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Fayetteville Junior race
European Championships
Gold medal – first place Junior race
Women's track cycling
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2021 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2021 Apeldoorn Madison

Zoe Bäckstedt (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding international for Great Britain, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.[1][2] At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race,[3][4] and silver in the junior women's time trial.[5][6] At the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Bäckstedt won a second world junior title, this time in the cyclo-cross discipline. Bäckstedt is a three time European junior champion on the track and a junior European cyclo-cross champion.

Bäckstedt's mother, Megan Hughes, and father, Magnus, are both former professional cyclists, and her sister Elynor also rides professionally.[7]

Major results[]

Cyclo-cross[]

2020–2021
1st Jersey white.svg Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Tábor
2021–2022
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI World Junior Championships
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg UEC European Junior Championships
Ethias Cross
1st Grand Prix Rouwmoer
2nd Berencross
Stockholm Weekend
1st Täby Park
1st Stockholm
2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Tábor
1st Citadelcross
1st Dendermonde
Junior Superprestige
1st Gieten
Junior X²O Badkamers Trophy
1st Krawatencross
3rd Gullegem

Road[]

2021
UCI Junior Road World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road race
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Time trial
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
5th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
1st Jersey white.svg Youth classification
1st Stage 2 (ITT)

Track[]

2021
UEC European Junior Track Championships
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Individual pursuit
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Madison (with Millie Couzens)
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Zoe Bäckstedt". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Fun the name of the game for multi-talented Zoe Backstedt". Cycling News. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  3. ^ "GB's Zoe Backstedt wins women's junior road race at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  4. ^ "World Championships: Zoe Backstedt wins junior women's road race title". Cycling News. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Final Results / Résultat final: Women Junior Individual Time Trial". Tissot Timing. Tissot. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Cyclists Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling win junior world time trial silver medals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  7. ^ "A family affair for 'disappointed' Zoe Bäckstedt at the World Championships, as 16-year-old takes GB's first medal". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 25 September 2021.

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