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Jane Zoe Bäckstedt[3] (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team Canyon–SRAM, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.[1][4]
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| Full name | Jane Zoe Bäckstedt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 2004 Pontyclun, Wales[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Canyon–SRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022–2023 | EF Education–Tibco–SVB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Canyon–SRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race,[5][6] 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.[7][8]
At the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Bäckstedt won a second world junior title, this time in the cyclo-cross discipline.
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[9]
In 2024, Bäckstedt won first place in the U23 Women's race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[10]
Bäckstedt's mother, Megan Hughes, and father, Magnus, are both former professional cyclists, and her sister Elynor also rides professionally.[11]
Overall UCI Junior World Cup
UCI World Junior Championships
UEC European Junior Championships
National Championships
UCI World Under-23 Championships UCI World Under-23 Championships UEC European Under-23 Championships Road race Time trial Time trial, National Junior Championships Youth classification Road race
Time trial Road race Time trial
Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele Juniors
Points classification
Overall Watersley Challenge Juniors
Mountains classification
Overall U6 Cycle Tour
Points classification
Young rider classification Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships Young rider classification Young rider classification Individual pursuit Madison (with Millie Couzens) Team pursuit Individual pursuit Madison (with Millie Couzens) Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Grace Lister)Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
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