{"id":44111,"date":"2026-06-27T06:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/megan-barker-reclaims-title-at-national-road-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:47:24","slug":"megan-barker-reclaims-title-at-national-road-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/megan-barker-reclaims-title-at-national-road-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Barker reclaims title at National Road Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Megan Barker reclaimed her British elite women&#8217;s circuit race title as the second day of the National Road Championships produced its second Welsh winner.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barker triumphed in a sprint finish on the course in Aberystwyth to follow up on her success in the same event in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cardiff-born 28-year-old edged out Carys Lloyd &#8211; the teenager who will join Barker as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/cly73n2815vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wales&#8217; selection for this summer&#8217;s Commonwealth Games<\/a> in Glasgow &#8211; by less than three hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s Eilidh Shaw took third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home one-two came a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/ckg542w746ro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Zoe Backstedt topped an all-Welsh podium<\/a> in the women&#8217;s time trail in Lampeter ahead of Anna Morris and sister Elynor Backstedt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Bostock took the open race title on the five-lap 1.6km circuit, ahead of Jacob Bush and Thomas Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The championships continue on Sunday with the road race championships &#8211; also being held in Aberystwyth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cq610471gv1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Barker reclaimed her British elite women&#8217;s circuit race title as the second day of the National Road Championships produced its second Welsh winner. Barker triumphed in a sprint finish on the course in Aberystwyth to follow up on her success in the same event in 2023. The Cardiff-born 28-year-old edged out Carys Lloyd &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44113,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44111\/revisions\/44113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}