Image source, SWPixImage caption, Zoe Backstedt (centre) defended her national time trial title in a Welsh clean sweep of the podium
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Zoe Backstedt retained her British national elite women's time trial title, topping an all-Welsh podium at the 2026 championships in Lampeter.
The 21-year-old, who last week won a stage of Tour de Suisse Femmes, covered the 15.9 mile (25.6km) Ceredigion course in 32 minutes and 45 seconds.
World track cycling champion Anna Morris, 31, was runner-up 22 seconds back, with Backstedt's 24-year-old sister Elynor third, 1min 05sec behind the winning time.
Earlier in the day, Ben Wiggins took the Under-23 men's time trial title, with Henry Hobbs second and Finlay Tarling - another Welsh rider on home territory - third.
Wiggins' winning time was 29min 02sec, with Hobbs 1min 19sec slower and Tarling a further three seconds behind.
The elite men's time trial and Under-23 women's time trial races take place later on Thursday.
Image source, SWPixImage caption, Zoe Backstedt came into the race on the back of a stage win at the Tour de Suisse Femmes
The weekend of racing continues with the circuit championships in Aberystwyth on Friday evening, and culminates on Sunday with the road race championships - also being held in Aberystwyth.
Millie Couzens is the defending elite women's road champion, but is likely to be pushed all the way by three-time winner Pfeiffer Georgi and Anna Henderson who took the podium places in 2025, while Sam Watson will be hoping to retain the elite men's winning jersey from last year.
After starting on the seafront, the road races will head out of town towards Llanfarian as far as Trawsgoed on a 23.4km anticlockwise loop, before passing Y Gors on the way back towards Aberystwyth.
The peloton will complete three laps for the women's race and five laps in the men's race, before moving on to a 12.4km finishing circuit - four laps for the women's and five laps for the men's race.
Racing begins with the elite and Under-23 women at 08:45 BST, before the elite and Under-23 men race at 13:45 BST.
