Jane Zoe Bäckstedt[3] (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team Canyon–SRAM, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.[1][4]
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| Full name | Jane Zoe Bäckstedt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 2004 Pontyclun, Wales[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Canyon–SRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022–2023 | EF Education–Tibco–SVB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Canyon–SRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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 EF Education–Tibco–SVB[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
editCyclo-cross
edit- 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
- Stockholm Weekend
- 1st Täby Park
- 1st Stockholm
- 2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
- 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
Road
edit- 2021
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Time trial, National Junior Championships
- 5th Overall Watersley Challenge Juniors
- 1st Youth classification
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st
- 2022
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st
Time trial
- 1st
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 3
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Watersley Challenge Juniors
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stages 1, 2 (ITT) & 3
- 1st
- 1st
Overall U6 Cycle Tour
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stages 1 (ITT), 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (ITT)
- 1st
- 2023
- 1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 5th Overall Simac Ladies Tour
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2024 (1 pro win)
- 2nd Antwerp Port Epic
- 3rd Overall Simac Ladies Tour
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 1st
Track
edit- 2021
- UEC European Junior Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
- 1st
- 2022
- 1st Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Grace Lister)
Mountain bike
edit- 2021
- 3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
References
edit- ^ a b "Zoe Bäckstedt". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Zoe BACKSTEDT". Birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Limited. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ "Jane Zoe BACKSTEDT". Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Rook, Anne-Marije. "Multitalent Zoe Bäckstedt joins EF Education-TIBCO-SVB". Cycling Weekly. Future PLC. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ Ben Goddard (4 February 2024). "Zoe Backstedt dominates U23 women's race at Cyclocross World Championships". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "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
edit- Athlete profile of Zoe Bäckstedt on Redbull.com
Zoe Bäckstedt at UCI
- Zoe Bäckstedt at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Zoe Bäckstedt at ProCyclingStats
- Zoe Bäckstedt at Cycling Quotient