Welsh cyclist
Jane Zoe Bäckstedt [ 3] racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team Canyon–SRAM , competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.[ 1] [ 4]
At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships , Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race ,[ 5] [ 6] 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
Cyclo-cross
Road
Track
Mountain bike
References
External links
Zoe Bäckstedt at UCI
