{"id":88349,"date":"2026-06-19T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/?p=88349"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:43:34","slug":"baeckstedt-sprints-to-victory-in-bad-ragaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/baeckstedt-sprints-to-victory-in-bad-ragaz\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e4ckstedt sprints to victory in Bad Ragaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt (Canyon\/\/SRAM Zondacrypto) takes stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse Women. The Briton prevailed in the sprint on the 120.8-kilometre circuit around Bad Ragaz. Lily Williams (Human Powered Health) is second, with Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance Soudal Team) completing the podium. Jasmin Liechti (Swiss Cycling) is Switzerland\u2019s best rider finishing in 5th place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What looked on paper to be the easiest stage of this Tour was dominated early by a breakaway of eight riders. Kimberley Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance Soudal Team), Alice Towers (Canyon\/\/SRAM Zondacrypto) and Juliette Berthet (AG Insurance Soudal Team) were in the group which led by two minutes at times.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the race, the breakaway\u2019s advantage steadily dissolved. The chasing peloton upped their pace ahead of the final intermediate sprints; Marlen Reusser (Movistar Team) seized her chance, picking up three valuable bonus seconds along the way in the fight for the General Classification.<\/p>\n<p>With three kilometres to go there was a costly crash: second overall Ailish Lauren Dickson (FDJ United Suez) went down at the back of the peloton and was forced to abandon. Shortly afterwards the expected sprint finish did not disappoint. Young Briton Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt launched the sprint in the final 300 metres leaving her rivals in her wake.<\/p>\n<h2>\nH\u00e4berlin and Reusser in the top 4<\/h2>\n<p>Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) retains the leader\u2019s jersey. Sarah Van Dam (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) moves up to 2nd overall, 35 seconds behind. Next the Swiss riders lie 3rd and 4th: Steffi H\u00e4berlin (Team SD Worx Protime) and Marlen Reusser (Movistar Team). H\u00e4berlin trails by 54 seconds, while Reusser, thanks to her time bonus, is just one further second behind.<\/p>\n<p>Into stage 4 the situation remains open. Saturday\u2019s individual time trial suits World ITT Champion Reusser. It is a golden opportunity for the Bern native to make up further ground in the General Classification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt (Canyon\/\/SRAM Zondacrypto) takes stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse Women. The Briton prevailed in the sprint on the 120.8-kilometre circuit around Bad Ragaz. Lily Williams (Human Powered Health) is second, with Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance Soudal Team) completing the podium. Jasmin Liechti (Swiss Cycling) is Switzerland\u2019s best rider finishing in 5th place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":88345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,114],"class_list":["post-88349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-women-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88504,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88349\/revisions\/88504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}