Zoe Bäckstedt

Zoe Bäckstedt
Bäckstedt in 2021
Personal information
Full nameJane Zoe Bäckstedt
Born (2004-09-24) 24 September 2004
Pontyclun, Wales[1]
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Team information
Current teamCanyon//SRAM
Discipline
  • Road
  • Track
  • Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Professional teams
2022–2023EF Education–Tibco–SVB
2023–Canyon//SRAM
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
National Championships (2023)
Road

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2026)
National Time Trial Championships (2025, 2026)
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 FlandersJunior road race
Gold medal – first place2022 WollongongJunior road race
Gold medal – first place2022 WollongongJunior time trial
Gold medal – first place2025 KigaliUnder-23 time trial
Silver medal – second place2021 FlandersJunior time trial
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 DrentheUnder-23 time trial
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 LiévinUnder-23
Gold medal – first place2025 LiévinMixed relay
Gold medal – first place2024 TáborUnder-23
Gold medal – first place2022 FayettevilleJunior
Silver medal – second place2024 TáborTeam relay
Silver medal – second place2023 HoogerheideUnder-23
Silver medal – second place2023 HoogerheideTeam relay
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 PontchâteauUnder-23
Gold medal – first place2021 WijsterJunior
Women's track cycling
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Tel AvivMadison
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 ApeldoornIndividual pursuit
Gold medal – first place2021 ApeldoornMadison
Gold medal – first place2021 ApeldoornTeam pursuit

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]

Career

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. In 2025 she won her first 'senior' World Championship at the 2025 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in the mixed team relay for Great Britain; while technically still an under-23 rider, she took the elite rider spot in the relay, allowing Cat Ferguson to take the under-23 leg.

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]

At the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda, Bäckstedt won the under-23 time trial.[11] She also won the time trial on the opening stage of the 2026 Vuelta a Extremadura.[12]

In June 2026, she won stage three of the Tour de Suisse Femmes,[13] before winning both the road race and the time trial at the British National Championships. Her victories in the National Championships made her the first female cyclist to win both in the same year since Alice Wood in 2019.[14] In July, she retained her Baloise Ladies Tour title.[15]

Bäckstedt was selected for the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, and will make her debut.[16]

Personal life

Bäckstedt's mother, Megan Hughes, and father, Magnus, are both former professional cyclists, and her sister Elynor also rides professionally.[17]

In 2023, Bäckstedt announced via Instagram that she was in a relationship with Dutch speed skater Femke Beuling.[18]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

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
1st Essen
2nd Meulebeke
Stockholm Weekend
1st Täby Park
1st Stockholm
2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Tábor
1st Namur
1st Dendermonde
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 Championships
1st Under-23
1st Team relay
UCI World Cup
2nd Zonhoven
2nd Maasmechelen
3rd Dublin
4th Besançon
5th Gavere
5th Dendermonde
Superprestige
2nd Gullegem
2025–2026
X²O Badkamers Trophy
3rd Baal
UCI World Cup
4th Hoogerheide

Road

2021
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Road race
2nd Time trial
1st Time trial, National Junior Championships
5th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
1st Youth classification
1st Stage 2 (ITT)
2022
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
National Junior Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
1st Points classification
1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 3
1st Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 1, 2 (ITT) & 3
1st Overall U6 Cycle Tour
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 1 (ITT), 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (ITT)
2023
1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
5th Overall Simac Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
2024 (1 pro win)
2nd Antwerp Port Epic
3rd Overall Simac Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
2025 (6)
1st Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
1st Prologue, Stages 3a & 3b (ITT)
1st Stage 5 (ITT) Simac Ladies Tour
5th Dwars door het Hageland
2026 (7)
National Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
1st Prologue & Stage 3a (ITT)
1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 1 (ITT) Vuelta a Extremadura
4th Dwars door Vlaanderen
5th Tour of Flanders

Track

2021
UEC European Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
1st Team pursuit
National Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Madison (with Millie Couzens)
2022
1st Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Grace Lister)

Mountain bike

2021
3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships

References

  1. 1 2 "Zoe Bäckstedt". Pro Cycling Stats. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Zoe BACKSTEDT". Birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Limited. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Jane Zoe BACKSTEDT". Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Fun the name of the game for multi-talented Zoe Backstedt". Cycling News. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "GB's Zoe Backstedt wins women's junior road race at World Championships". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "World Championships: Zoe Backstedt wins junior women's road race title". Cycling News. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "Final Results / Résultat final: Women Junior Individual Time Trial". Tissot Timing. Tissot. 21 September 2021. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  8. ↑ "Cyclists Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling win junior world time trial silver medals". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Rook, Anne-Marije. "Multitalent Zoe Bäckstedt joins EF Education-TIBCO-SVB". Cycling Weekly. Future PLC. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  10. ↑ Ben Goddard (4 February 2024). "Zoe Backstedt dominates U23 women's race at Cyclocross World Championships". cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  11. ↑ Warwick, Matt (22 September 2025). "Backstedt claims gold in U23 time trial at Worlds". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 7 December 2025. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  12. ↑ "Backstedt wins Vuelta a Extremadura time trial". BBC Sport. 6 March 2026. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  13. ↑ "Backstedt sprints to Tour de Suisse Femmes stage win". BBC Sport. 19 June 2026. Archived from the original on 11 July 2026. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "Backstedt seals double with road race victory". BBC Sport. 28 June 2026. Archived from the original on 11 July 2026. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
  15. ↑ "Backstedt retains Baloise Ladies Tour title". BBC Sport. 19 July 2026. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
  16. ↑ "Zoe Backstedt to make Tour de France Femmes debut". BBC Sport. 24 July 2026. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
  17. ↑ "A family affair for 'disappointed' Zoe Bäckstedt at the World Championships, as 16-year-old takes GB's first medal". Cycling Weekly. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  18. ↑ "Zoe Backstedt and former skater/current Dutch cyclist announce romantic relationship". Retrieved 4 August 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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