{"id":239552,"date":"2025-11-02T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239552\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:14:07","slug":"my-helmet-saved-my-life-zoe-backstedt-to-miss-opening-races-of-cyclocross-season-after-training-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239552\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My helmet saved my life&#8217; \u2013\u00a0Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt to miss opening races of cyclocross season after training crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"7eab24b6-1b5f-4cd1-ba38-893f9668927a\">Under-23 cyclocross world champion <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/zoe-baeckstedt\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/zoe-baeckstedt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt<\/a> is set to miss the start of the 2025-26 cyclocross season after suffering two hand and wrist fractures in a training crash last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old announced the news in a post on Instagram in which she thanked her bike helmet for saving her life.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"7eab24b6-1b5f-4cd1-ba38-893f9668927a-2\">Now, B\u00e4ckstedt will miss her opening races of the upcoming campaign, which would&#8217;ve fallen in November as they did last season with the X2O Trofee Lokeren, Superprestige Merksplas, and X2O Trofee Hamme.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;October &#8211; the highs and lows,&#8221; B\u00e4ckstedt wrote on her monthly roundup Instagram post, which included images of her heavily damaged helmet and of her heavily strapped wrist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A perfect month of training and \u2018holidays\u2019 but a crash for me in training yesterday resulted in 2 small fractures in my hand and wrist\u2026 It\u2019s a shame to have this outcome and to miss the first races of the season but give me time and I\u2019ll come back stronger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;One thing I know for sure, my helmet saved my life. Thank you Giro Cycling. Wear a helmet, please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4ckstedt, who combines her cyclocross season with road racing for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/road\/teams\/uci-womens-worldtour\/2025\/canyon-sram-zondacrypto\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/road\/teams\/uci-womens-worldtour\/2025\/canyon-sram-zondacrypto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canyon-Sram-Zondacrypto<\/a>, enjoyed a consistent season among the elites last winter, recording 15 top-10 placings across 15 races and taking fourth overall in the UCI World Cup standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p>To round off her season, she stormed to the under-23 world title in Li\u00e9vin, France, beating Marie Schreiber (Luxembourg) by 39 seconds. She went on to enjoy her best road racing season to date, too, winning the British national team trial title, the under-23 world time trial title, and the Baloise Ladies Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">She&#8217;s now expected to be back racing towards the end of November, with her previous cyclocross debut set to fall in the middle of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under-23 cyclocross world champion Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt is set to miss the start of the 2025-26 cyclocross season after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239552","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=239552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}