BÄCKSTEDT TO THE FUTURE
The Yorkshire World Championships in 2019 were a real showcase for British riders, but only one began the week bearing the weight of the previous year’s success.
Elynor Bäckstedt had been the only Brit to have reached a podium in Innsbruck, Austria, taking bronze in both the junior time trial and road race, and many hoped for a repeat performance in Harrogate.
However, though she was a second-year junior when she rolled down the time trial start ramp last September, she was still only 17, and her own expectations were realistic.
“If I could choose a TT course it would be a flat, straight line, and obviously that is very opposite to the course they delivered for us,” Bäckstedt tell us in her matter-of-fact, but breezy, engaging way.
