Zoe Bäckstedt
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.
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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
Overall UCI Junior World Cup
- 1st Tábor
- 2021–2022
- 1st
UCI World Junior Championships - 1st
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 Road race
- 2nd
Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships - 5th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
- 1st Youth classification
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st
- 2022
- 1st
Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 3
- 1st
Track
- 2021
- UEC European Junior Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
References
- "Zoe Bäckstedt". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- "Fun the name of the game for multi-talented Zoe Backstedt". Cycling News. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- "GB's Zoe Backstedt wins women's junior road race at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- "World Championships: Zoe Backstedt wins junior women's road race title". Cycling News. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- "Final Results / Résultat final: Women Junior Individual Time Trial". Tissot Timing. Tissot. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- "Cyclists Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling win junior world time trial silver medals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- "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.
External links
- Zoe Bäckstedt at ProCyclingStats
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