{"id":31061,"date":"2026-06-19T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tour-de-suisse-femmes-zoe-backstedt-sprints-to-stage-three-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:04:24","slug":"tour-de-suisse-femmes-zoe-backstedt-sprints-to-stage-three-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tour-de-suisse-femmes-zoe-backstedt-sprints-to-stage-three-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Suisse Femmes: Zoe Backstedt sprints to stage three victory"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Stage four on Saturday will see the riders take on a 24km time trial and Backstedt, winner of five time trials so far in her short career, will be among the favourites to take back-to-back victories.<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow will be super brutal with the heat,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Every day has been super hard with the heat, and the climbing, but tomorrow it should be a good day for me again.”<\/p>\n

The five-stage Tour de Suisse Femmes concludes with a mountain loop starting and finishing in Villars-sur-Ollon on Sunday.<\/p>\n

In the men’s race, Ecuador rider Jhonatan Narvaez took a sprint finish to win stage three from Xandro Meurisse of Belgium.<\/p>\n

Tadej Pogacar, whose fiancee Urska Zigart broke her jaw<\/a> in a heavy crash on Thursday, retained the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n

The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider sat in the peloton after two days of attacking, and holds a lead of two minutes and 50 seconds over Richard Carapaz.<\/p>\n

There are two stages left with the race finishing in Villars-sur-Ollon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Stage four on Saturday will see the riders take on a 24km time trial and Backstedt, winner of five time trials so far in her short career, will be among the favourites to take back-to-back victories. “Tomorrow will be super brutal with the heat,” she said. “Every day has been super hard with the heat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31061","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\/31061","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=31061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31063,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061\/revisions\/31063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}