# Zoe Bäckstedt

Zoe Jane Bäckstedt (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team Canyon–SRAM zondacrypto, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.
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 EF Education–Tibco–SVB
In 2024, Bäckstedt won first place in the U23 Women's race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
Bäckstedt's mother, Megan Hughes, and father, Magnus, are both former professional cyclists, and her sister Elynor also rides professionally.

## 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

### Road
#### 2021

    UCI World Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial
    1st Time trial, National Junior Championships
    5th Overall Watersley Challenge Juniors
       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 Challenge Juniors
       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)

### 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