{"id":31316,"date":"2026-06-25T17:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/national-road-race-championships-zoe-backstedt-retains-time-trial-title-on-all-welsh-podium\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:12:53","slug":"national-road-race-championships-zoe-backstedt-retains-time-trial-title-on-all-welsh-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/national-road-race-championships-zoe-backstedt-retains-time-trial-title-on-all-welsh-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"National road race championships: Zoe Backstedt retains time trial title on all-Welsh podium"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Zoe Backstedt retained her British national elite women’s time trial title, topping an all-Welsh podium at the 2026 championships in Lampeter.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, who last week won a stage of Tour de Suisse Femmes,<\/a> covered the 15.9 mile (25.6km) Ceredigion course in 32 minutes and 45 seconds.<\/p>\n

World track cycling champion Anna Morris, 31, was runner-up 22 seconds back, with Backstedt’s 24-year-old sister Elynor third, 1min 05sec behind the winning time.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Ben Wiggins took the Under-23 men’s time trial title, with Henry Hobbs second and Finlay Tarling – another Welsh rider on home territory – third.<\/p>\n

Wiggins’ winning time was 29min 02sec, with Hobbs 1min 19sec slower and Tarling a further three seconds behind.<\/p>\n

The elite men’s time trial and Under-23 women’s time trial races take place later on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Zoe Backstedt retained her British national elite women’s time trial title, topping an all-Welsh podium at the 2026 championships in Lampeter. The 21-year-old, who last week won a stage of Tour de Suisse Femmes, covered the 15.9 mile (25.6km) Ceredigion course in 32 minutes and 45 seconds. World track cycling champion Anna Morris, 31, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31316","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\/31316","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=31316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31318,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31316\/revisions\/31318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}