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Zoe Backstedt Essen Cyclo-Cross (via Twitter)Zoe Backstedt joins – and beats – the elite at Essen cyclo-cross
17-year-old Zoe Backstedt extended her remarkable 2021 by dominating today’s elite women’s cyclo-cross race in Essen, her first win at senior level on Belgian soil.
The junior road race world champion and European junior cyclo-cross champion, riding for the Tormans team, led from start to finish on the extremely muddy course, using her power and pacing to claw away from her rivals on the long running sections that defined the race.
“I got the holeshot and so was first onto the bridge. That helped me get out front,” Backstedt said after her win.
“However all the running gave me pain in my back but it was a fun course. The water was so deep that my front wheel went in and I almost went over the bars.
“This win gives me confidence after two hard weeks of training to get ready for the World Cup races coming up. It’ll be good going into the junior race with the leader’s jersey.”
The prodigious and multi-talented British rider finished 1:04 ahead of Laura Verdonschot of Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal, with fellow Brit Anna Kay in third, 1:36 down.
Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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Pretty sure she rides for Tormans-Acrog not Vondelmolen-De Ceuster as suggested in the article....Guess that's what happens when you just trust another cycling site and copy some of their articles. There is only one other place reporting her team like that...