Zoe Bäckstedt storms to victory in British elite women’s national time trial championships

Zoe Bäckstedt (Canyon-SRAM) powered to her first elite title on the British nationwide highway championships within the time trial on Thursday, beating defending champion Anna Henderson (Lidl-Trek) by 20 seconds in Wales.

Nonetheless simply 20, Welsh rider Bäckstedt stormed via the 27km course in a time of 38:48 on dwelling roads, stopping the clock in Abearon with a mean pace of 42.7kph.

Defending champion Henderson was the final off the beginning ramp, however was unable to assert her third British elite ladies’s ITT title. She was the one rider inside a minute of Bäckstedt, with third-place Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic PostNL) ending 1:27 slower.

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