5
This season, 20-year-old Zoe Bäckstedt took her first pro win, at the Simac Ladies Tour – where she also finished third on the GC. Now, she’s into the cyclocross season, where she holds the rainbow stripes of the Under-23 World Champion.
But the outcome could have been so different, with a summer of illness keeping her off the bike. Cycling Weekly caught up with the Canyon-SRAM rider before the muddy-season kick off, to find out about how she made her 2024 season comeback possible.
