Zoe Bäckstedt Explained

Zoe Bäckstedt
Fullname:Jane Zoe Bäckstedt
Birth Date:24 September 2004
Birth Place:Pontyclun
Height:1.76 m[1]
Role:Rider
Proyears1:2022-23
Proyears2:2023-
Majorwins:
Cyclo-cross
  • National Championships (2023)
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    Jane Zoe Bäckstedt[2] (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.[3] [4]

    At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race,[5] [6] 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.[7] [8]

    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 [9]

    In 2024, Bäckstedt won first place in the U23 Women's race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[10]

    Bäckstedt's mother, Megan Hughes, and father, Magnus, are both former professional cyclists, and her sister Elynor also rides professionally.[11]

    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

    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
  • 2nd Antwerp Port Epic

    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

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Zoe BACKSTEDT . Birmingham2022.com . . 2022-09-20.
    2. Web site: Jane Zoe BACKSTEDT . 2023-11-12 . Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
    3. Web site: Zoe Bäckstedt . Pro Cycling Stats . 19 September 2021.
    4. Web site: Fun the name of the game for multi-talented Zoe Backstedt . Cycling News . 25 September 2021.
    5. Web site: GB's Zoe Backstedt wins women's junior road race at World Championships . BBC Sport . 25 September 2021.
    6. Web site: World Championships: Zoe Backstedt wins junior women's road race title . Cycling News . 25 September 2021.
    7. Web site: Final Results / Résultat final: Women Junior Individual Time Trial . Tissot Timing . . 21 September 2021 . 21 September 2021.
    8. Web site: Cyclists Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling win junior world time trial silver medals . BBC Sport . 25 September 2021.
    9. Web site: Rook . Anne-Marije . Multitalent Zoe Bäckstedt joins EF Education-TIBCO-SVB . Cycling Weekly . Future PLC . 28 February 2023.
    10. Web site: Ben Goddard . 2024-02-04 . Zoe Backstedt dominates U23 women's race at Cyclocross World Championships . 2024-05-13 . cyclingnews.com . en.
    11. Web site: A family affair for 'disappointed' Zoe Bäckstedt at the World Championships, as 16-year-old takes GB's first medal . Cycling Weekly . 25 September 2021.

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