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Welsh cyclist

Zoe Bäckstedt
Bäckstedt in 2021
Personal information
Full nameJane Zoe Bäckstedt
Born (2004-09-24) 24 September 2004 (age 20)
Pontyclun, Wales
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
Current teamCanyon–SRAM zondacrypto
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
  • Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Professional teams
2022–2023EF Education–Tibco–SVB
2023–Canyon–SRAM zondacrypto
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
National Championships (2023)
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Flanders Junior road race
Gold medal – first place 2022 Wollongong Junior road race
Gold medal – first place 2022 Wollongong Junior time trial
Silver medal – second place 2021 Flanders Junior time trial
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Drenthe Under-23 time trial
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Tábor Under-23
Gold medal – first place 2022 Fayetteville Junior
Silver medal – second place 2024 Tábor Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2023 Hoogerheide Under-23
Silver medal – second place 2023 Hoogerheide Team relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Pontchâteau Under-23
Gold medal – first place 2021 Wijster Junior
Women's track cycling
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Tel Aviv Madison
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2021 Apeldoorn Madison
Gold medal – first place 2021 Apeldoorn Team pursuit

Jane Zoe Bäckstedt (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team Canyon–SRAM zondacrypto, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.

At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race, and silver in the junior women's time trial. A year later, she upgraded junior time-trial silver to gold, winning the event by over a minute and a half before successfully defending her road race title with a dominant solo victory, and her third road world championship at junior level.

At the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Bäckstedt won a second world junior title, this time in the cyclo-cross discipline.

This completed a hat-trick of world titles across three different disciplines, having won the Madison at the 2022 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships. Bäckstedt is a three time European junior champion on the track and a junior and under-23 European cyclo-cross champion.

In 2022, at the age of 17, Bäckstedt signed with UCI Women's World Tour Team EF Education–Tibco–SVB

In 2024, Bäckstedt won first place in the U23 Women's race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.

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

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2020–2021
1st Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Tábor
2021–2022 (3 pro wins)
1st UCI World Junior Championships
1st UEC European Junior Championships
Ethias Cross
1st Essen
2nd Meulebeke
Stockholm Weekend
1st Täby Park
1st Stockholm
2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Tábor
1st Namur
1st Dendermonde
Junior Superprestige
1st Gieten
Junior X²O Badkamers Trophy
1st Lille
3rd Gullegem
2022–2023 (1)
1st National Championships
2nd UCI World Under-23 Championships
Coupe de France
2nd Nommay II
UCI World Cup
4th Gavere
4th Besançon
5th UEC European Under-23 Championships
2023–2024 (3)
1st UCI World Under-23 Championships
1st UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Gullegem
1st Indianapolis I
1st Indianapolis II
2nd Waterloo
UCI World Cup
3rd Dendermonde
3rd Dublin
3rd Zonhoven
4th Hoogerheide
5th Waterloo
3rd Woerden
2024–2025
UCI World Cup
2nd Zonhoven
3rd Dublin
4th Besançon
5th Gavere
Superprestige
2nd Gullegem

Road

2021
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Road race
2nd Time trial
1st Time trial, National Junior Championships
5th Overall Watersley Challenge Juniors
1st Youth classification
1st Stage 2 (ITT)
2022
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
National Junior Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
1st Points classification
1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 3
1st Overall Watersley Challenge Juniors
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 1, 2 (ITT) & 3
1st Overall U6 Cycle Tour
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 1 (ITT), 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (ITT)
2023
1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
5th Overall Simac Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
2024 (1 pro win)
2nd Antwerp Port Epic
3rd Overall Simac Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)

Track

2021
UEC European Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
1st Team pursuit
National Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
2022
1st Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Grace Lister)

Mountain bike

2021
3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships

References

  1. ^ "Zoe Bäckstedt". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  2. "Zoe BACKSTEDT". Birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Limited. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  3. "Jane Zoe BACKSTEDT". Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  4. "Fun the name of the game for multi-talented Zoe Backstedt". Cycling News. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  5. "GB's Zoe Backstedt wins women's junior road race at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  6. "World Championships: Zoe Backstedt wins junior women's road race title". Cycling News. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  7. "Final Results / Résultat final: Women Junior Individual Time Trial". Tissot Timing. Tissot. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  8. "Cyclists Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling win junior world time trial silver medals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  9. Rook, Anne-Marije. "Multitalent Zoe Bäckstedt joins EF Education-TIBCO-SVB". Cycling Weekly. Future PLC. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  10. Ben Goddard (4 February 2024). "Zoe Backstedt dominates U23 women's race at Cyclocross World Championships". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  11. "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 UCIEdit on Wikidata

Riders on Canyon–SRAM
UCI Road World Champions – Women's junior road race
UCI Road World Champions – Women's junior time trial
UCI Cyclo-cross World Champions – Women's under-23 race
2010–2019
2020–2029
UCI Cyclo-cross World Champions – Women's junior race
2020–2029
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