Worlds Race Report: After her beautiful victory within the particular person time trial, Zoe Bäckstedt gained the junior girls’s street race. In Wollongong she was once more by far the very best on Saturday. Eglantine Rayer beat Nienke Vinke within the dash for second place.
Worlds’22 win No.2 for Zoe Bäckstedt
4 laps on the menu for the junior girls, protecting a course of 67.2 kilometres. On the primary lap Bäckstedt rode away from the competitors, solely to be seen once more after the end.
Massive solo win for Zoe Bäckstedt
On her birthday, Bäckstedt handled the followers to a protracted solo. Behind; the battle for the opposite medals was extra thrilling. Nienke Vinke was joined by Eglantine Rayer the final time over Mount Nice.
Bäckstedt domination
The 2 sprinted it out on the coast for the silver medal, the reigning European champion taking the second place and the silver medal. Vinke was not upset when she acquired the bronze medal on the rostrum.
Rayer took the dash for second from Vinke
It has occurred thrice earlier than within the junior girls’s race {that a} rider took the double on the World championships. In 1999, Geneviève Jeanson was the primary, then Nicole Cooke (2001) and Chloé Dygert in 2015. Cooke can also be on the listing of riders who gained the junior street race twice in a row in 2000 and 2001. Lucy van der Haar, then Lucy Garner, gained in each 2011 and 2012, whereas Amalie Dideriksen took the rainbow jersey within the following two years.
Ladies’s junior street race podium
World Championships 2022 – Junior Ladies’s Highway Race Outcome:
1. Zoe Bäckstedt (Nice Britain) in 1:47:05
2. Eglantine Rayer (France) at 2:07
3. Nienke Vinke (Netherlands)
4. Francesca Pellegrini (Italy) at 2:19
5. Maho Kakita (Japan) at 2:21
6. Malwina Mul (Poland)
7. Julia Kopecky (Czech Republic)
8. Eleonora Ciabocco (Italy)
9. Xaydee Van Sinaey (Belgium)
10. Alizée Rigaux (France).
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