Jane Zoe Bäckstedt (born 24 September 2004) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist riding for UCI Women's World Tour Team Canyon//SRAM, competing across road, cyclo-cross and track racing disciplines.
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Career
At the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, Bäckstedt won the gold medal in the junior women's road race, and silver in the junior women's time trial. A year later, she upgraded junior time-trial silver to gold, winning the event by over a minute and a half before successfully defending her road race title with a dominant solo victory, and her third road world championship at junior level.
At the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Bäckstedt won a second world junior title, this time in the cyclo-cross discipline. In 2025 she won her first 'senior' World Championship at the 2025 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in the mixed team relay for Great Britain; while technically still an under-23 rider, she took the elite rider spot in the relay, allowing Cat Ferguson to take the under-23 leg.
This completed a hat-trick of world titles across three different disciplines, having won the Madison at the 2022 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships. Bäckstedt is a three time European junior champion on the track and a junior and under-23 European cyclo-cross champion.
In 2022, at the age of 17, Bäckstedt signed with UCI Women's World Tour Team EF Education–Tibco–SVB
In 2024, Bäckstedt won first place in the U23 Women's race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
At the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda, Bäckstedt won the under-23 time trial. She also won the time trial on the opening stage of the 2026 Vuelta a Extremadura.
In June 2026, she won stage three of the Tour de Suisse Femmes, before winning both the road race and the time trial at the British National Championships. Her victories in the National Championships made her the first female cyclist to win both in the same year since Alice Wood in 2019. In July, she retained her Baloise Ladies Tour title.
Bäckstedt was selected for the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, and will make her debut.
Personal life
Bäckstedt's mother, Megan Hughes, and father, Magnus, are both former professional cyclists, and her sister Elynor also rides professionally.
In 2023, Bäckstedt announced via Instagram that she was in a relationship with Dutch speed skater Femke Beuling.