{"id":461418,"date":"2026-03-06T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:27:07","slug":"zoe-backstedt-powers-to-time-trial-win-at-vuelta-a-extremadura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461418\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt powers to time-trial win at Vuelta a Extremadura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoe Backstedt powered to victory in the opening individual time trial of the Vuelta a Extremadura in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh cyclist beat nearest rival Brodie Chapman by 12 seconds to secure her first win of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She pedalled across the rain-soaked 18km course to finish in a time of 24 minutes and 30 seconds to take the yellow leader&#8217;s jersey and the white jersey, awarded to  the best-placed rider age under 26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The race is held over three stages in western Spain with a 132km stage from Pueblonuevo del Guadiana to Fuente del Maestre before Sunday&#8217;s third and final mountain stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt powered to victory in the opening individual time trial of the Vuelta a Extremadura in Spain.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-461418","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\/461418","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=461418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}