Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt’s dominance at the Baloise Ladies Tour continues with third stage win in three days.<\/p>\n
After conquering stage 3 in the morning, B\u00e4ckstedt (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) topped the podium again after a stage 4 time trial victory in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
B\u00e4ckstedt rode the 10.4km individual time trial in a winning time of 13:23, claiming the stage win by four seconds ahead of Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) and 13 seconds ahead of Marthe Goossens (AG Insurance-Soudal).<\/p>\n
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The victory extends the British rider\u2019s lead in Belgium, who now leads the overall classification by 12 seconds.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old regained the leader\u2019s jersey on Saturday, after losing it on Stage 1 to Charlotte Kool (Picnic PostNL).<\/p>\n
B\u00e4ckstedt took a solo victory on stage three to regain the jersey in Maldegem and held off a charging peloton that was mere metres behind her.<\/p>\n
After the race, she said: “It was a different day compared to the last road stages.<\/p>\n
“Super short, which I think suits me quite well.<\/p>\n
“In that last lap, there were a lot of attacks, and with only two of us in the front group, I had to follow everything. I saw a rider from Team Visma\u2013Lease a Bike go up the road with about 2.5 kilometres to go, and I thought, ‘This is the only chance\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
As one of the younger riders in the race, B\u00e4ckstedt leads the Youth overall classification as well, by over 30 seconds, ahead of Marie Schreiber.<\/p>\n
The youngster also leads in terms of points, currently sitting on 40, ahead of Barbara Guarischi, who trails by three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt’s dominance at the Baloise Ladies Tour continues with third stage win in three days. After conquering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-10745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}