Great Britain’s Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling take home the gold medals in the junior time trial races at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong.
Great Britain duo Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling claimed a pair of junior time trial gold medals at the UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong.
Seventeen-year-old Backstedt went into the 2022 Championships aiming to build on her silver medal from last year’s junior time trial and dominated the field with a time of 18:26.78.
Backstedt – who is also the reigning junior road race world champion – averaged a speed of 45.9km/h to storm to the gold medal in the 14.1km course, finishing 1:35.58 clear of Germany’s Justyna Czapla in second place. Belgium’s Febe Jooris took home the bronze.
“I came into it knowing that the climb was going to be tough, and being the last person off I’d already seen some times at the halfway point and at the finish,” Backstedt told UCI’s media channels.
“I was watching my Wahoo when I was riding, I was 10 and a half minutes over the climb and I was like ‘Okay, I should be up’. I just kept…
