{"id":662034,"date":"2026-06-28T01:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662034\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:50:20","slug":"megan-barker-reclaims-title-at-national-road-championships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662034\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Barker reclaims title at National Road Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Megan Barker reclaimed her British elite women&#8217;s circuit race title as the second day of the National Road Championships produced its second Welsh winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barker triumphed in a sprint finish on the course in Aberystwyth to follow up on her success in the same event in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cardiff-born 28-year-old edged out Carys Lloyd &#8211; the teenager who will join Barker as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cly73n2815vo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales&#8217; selection for this summer&#8217;s Commonwealth Games<\/a> in Glasgow &#8211; by less than three hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s Eilidh Shaw took third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home one-two came a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/ckg542w746ro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Backstedt topped an all-Welsh podium<\/a> in the women&#8217;s time trail in Lampeter ahead of Anna Morris and sister Elynor Backstedt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Bostock took the open race title on the five-lap 1.6km circuit, ahead of Jacob Bush and Thomas Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The championships continue on Sunday with the road race championships &#8211; also being held in Aberystwyth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Barker reclaimed her British elite women&#8217;s circuit race title as the second day of the National Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662034","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\/662034","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=662034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}