{"id":26684,"date":"2026-03-07T05:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zoe-backstedt-powers-to-time-trial-win-at-vuelta-a-extremadura\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:17:27","slug":"zoe-backstedt-powers-to-time-trial-win-at-vuelta-a-extremadura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zoe-backstedt-powers-to-time-trial-win-at-vuelta-a-extremadura\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt powers to time-trial win at Vuelta a Extremadura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Zoe Backstedt powered to victory in the opening individual time trial of the Vuelta a Extremadura in Spain.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh cyclist beat nearest rival Brodie Chapman by 12 seconds to secure her first win of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She pedalled across the rain-soaked 18km course to finish in a time of 24 minutes and 30 seconds to take the yellow leader&#8217;s jersey and the white jersey, awarded to  the best-placed rider age under 26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The race is held over three stages in western Spain with a 132km stage from Pueblonuevo del Guadiana to Fuente del Maestre before Sunday&#8217;s third and final mountain stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c4g7j4wejv8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Backstedt powered to victory in the opening individual time trial of the Vuelta a Extremadura in Spain. The Welsh cyclist beat nearest rival Brodie Chapman by 12 seconds to secure her first win of the 2026 season. She pedalled across the rain-soaked 18km course to finish in a time of 24 minutes and 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26686,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684\/revisions\/26686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}