{"id":44201,"date":"2026-06-29T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/national-road-championships-zoe-backstedt-seals-double-with-elite-womens-road-race-win\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:49:34","slug":"national-road-championships-zoe-backstedt-seals-double-with-elite-womens-road-race-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/national-road-championships-zoe-backstedt-seals-double-with-elite-womens-road-race-win\/","title":{"rendered":"National Road Championships: Zoe Backstedt seals double with elite women&#8217;s road race win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Zoe Backstedt produced a stellar display to win the British elite women&#8217;s road race in Aberystwyth.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old spectacularly overhauled Josie Knight before finishing one minute and 42 seconds clear of the DAS-Hutchinson rider, who took runner-up spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millie Couzens pipped Pfeiffer Georgi to bronze in Ceredigion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh rider&#8217;s latest success came just three days after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/ckg542w746ro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">retained her British national elite women&#8217;s time trial title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She became the first British woman to complete the time trial and road race double since Alice Wood in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having attacked early on, Knight opened up a sizeable lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backstedt, Matilda McKibben and Jo Tindley worked to hunt down the leader, although it was Canyon\/\/SRAM rider Backstedt who then launched a solo effort to haul in Knight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the previous leader tired, Backstedt took control and led with 14km to go before seeing out the victory to cap off an impressive double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fred Wright came out on top after a thrilling finale to win the elite men&#8217;s road race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old, riding for Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, pipped Lewis Askey to top spot on the podium following a sprint to the finish line, with Connor Swift coming third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c78yv8ken4vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Backstedt produced a stellar display to win the British elite women&#8217;s road race in Aberystwyth. The 21-year-old spectacularly overhauled Josie Knight before finishing one minute and 42 seconds clear of the DAS-Hutchinson rider, who took runner-up spot. Millie Couzens pipped Pfeiffer Georgi to bronze in Ceredigion. The Welsh rider&#8217;s latest success came just three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44202,"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\/44201"}],"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=44201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44203,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44201\/revisions\/44203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}