{"id":217579,"date":"2025-06-27T03:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217579\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:32:19","slug":"zoe-backstedt-wins-british-national-road-championships-time-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217579\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt wins British National Road Championships time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Zoe Backstedt claimed her first elite title at the British National Road Championships by winning the women&#8217;s time trial on Thursday<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Riding on home turf in Wales , the 20-year-old rider beat defending champion Anna Henderson by 20 seconds to finish in 38min 48sec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pfeiffer Georgi crossed the line 1:27 behind in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The championships are being held in Ceredigion, with the time trial starting in Ffos-y-ffin and finishing in Aberaeron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backstedt will return to action on Sunday in the road race, which Georgi will be looking to win for a third consecutive year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will be joined in the field by Backstedt&#8217;s older sister Elynor, along with Megan Barker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, after finishing 16th in the time trial, Barker&#8217;s older sister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cg4rk6v3kvzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elinor has announced she is pregnant and her season is over.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owain Doull will fly the Welsh flag in the men&#8217;s race, with Josh Tarling and Geraint Thomas unlikely to participate after crashing out of the Giro d&#8217;Italia and Tour de Suisse respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt claimed her first elite title at the British National Road Championships by winning the women&#8217;s time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-217579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753224304838080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}