{"id":12803,"date":"2025-07-21T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12803\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:23:07","slug":"zoe-backstedt-becomes-youngest-winner-of-baloise-ladies-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12803\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt becomes youngest winner of Baloise Ladies Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Zoe Backstedt became the youngest winner of the Baloise Ladies Tour by retaining her lead in the general classification on the final stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunday&#8217;s fifth and final stage in Zwevegem, Belgium, came to a dramatic conclusion with a big crash on the final straight, after stage leader Scarlett Souren had been caught with 2km remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An early breakaway meant Mackenzie Coupland held the virtual lead for most of the day, before 20-year-old Backstedt and the rest of the Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto team closed the gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two stage wins on Saturday had put Backstedt in prime position to win, and the Welsh rider maintained her 12 second-lead over Ellen van Dijk on Sunday, with Belgium&#8217;s Marthe Goossens a further 14 seconds back in third. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martina Fidanza sprinted to the stage victory ahead of Barbara Guarischi and Chiara Consonni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Zoe Backstedt became the youngest winner of the Baloise Ladies Tour by retaining her lead in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-12803","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\/12803","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=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}