Zoe Bäckstedt

Jane Zoe Bäckstedt (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team , competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.

Career At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race, 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.

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

In 2024, Bäckstedt won first place in the U23 Women's race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.

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

In June 2026, she won stage three of the Tour de Suisse Femmes, 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. In July, she retained her Baloise Ladies Tour title.

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

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

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

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

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

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