{"id":525549,"date":"2026-03-07T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:58:08","slug":"zoe-backstedt-retains-lead-after-vuelta-a-extremadura-stage-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525549\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt retains lead after Vuelta a Extremadura stage two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh cyclist Zoe Backstedt has retained the overall lead at the Vuelta a Extremadura in Spain as her Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto teammate Chiara Consonni won stage two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backstedt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c4g7j4wejv8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won Friday&#8217;s time trial stage<\/a>, her sixth time trial win in a row, to come into the second stage in the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Consonni launched her sprint as Backstedt gave her the leadout in the final kilometre of the 132km stage from Pueblonuevo del Guadiana to Fuente del Maestre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">21-year-old Backstedt holds a six second lead over Australia&#8217;s Brodie Chapman heading into Sunday&#8217;s final stage in the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh cyclist Zoe Backstedt has retained the overall lead at the Vuelta a Extremadura in Spain as her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-525549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}