{"id":657754,"date":"2026-06-25T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657754\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:00:09","slug":"national-road-race-championships-zoe-backstedt-retains-time-trial-title-on-all-welsh-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657754\/","title":{"rendered":"National road race championships: Zoe Backstedt retains time trial title on all-Welsh podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoe Backstedt retained her British national elite women’s time trial title, topping an all-Welsh podium at the 2026 championships in Lampeter.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, who last week won a stage of Tour de Suisse Femmes,<\/a> covered the 15.9 mile (25.6km) Ceredigion course in 32 minutes and 45 seconds.<\/p>\n

World track cycling champion Anna Morris, 31, was runner-up 22 seconds back, with Backstedt’s 24-year-old sister Elynor third, 1min 05sec behind the winning time.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Ben Wiggins took the Under-23 men’s time trial title, with Henry Hobbs second and Finlay Tarling – another Welsh rider on home territory – third.<\/p>\n

Wiggins’ winning time was 29min 02sec, with Hobbs 1min 19sec slower and Tarling a further three seconds behind.<\/p>\n

The elite men’s time trial and Under-23 women’s time trial races take place later on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt retained her British national elite women’s time trial title, topping an all-Welsh podium at the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657754","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\/657754","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=657754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}