{"id":78934,"date":"2026-09-20T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/marlen-reusser-holds-off-zoe-backstedt-to-retain-world-time-trial-cycling-title\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:56:18","slug":"marlen-reusser-holds-off-zoe-backstedt-to-retain-world-time-trial-cycling-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/marlen-reusser-holds-off-zoe-backstedt-to-retain-world-time-trial-cycling-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlen Reusser holds off Zoe Backstedt to retain world time-trial cycling title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Swiss rider denies British challenger in Montreal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Franziska Koch finishes third, Demi Vollering eighth<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marlen Reusser retained her world time-trial title in Montreal on Sunday as her expected main challenger, Demi Vollering, finished a disappointing eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Time-trial queen Reusser secured an ultimately comfortable victory, winning her second world championship after triumphing last year in Kigali \u2013 but not before young British rider Zoe Backstedt gave her a scare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/20\/cycling-world-time-trial-marlen-reusser-zoe-backstedt-evenepoel-montreal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss rider denies British challenger in Montreal Franziska Koch finishes third, Demi Vollering eighth Marlen Reusser retained her world time-trial title in Montreal on Sunday as her expected main challenger, Demi Vollering, finished a disappointing eighth. Time-trial queen Reusser secured an ultimately comfortable victory, winning her second world championship after triumphing last year in Kigali &#8230; <a title=\"Marlen Reusser holds off Zoe Backstedt to retain world time-trial cycling title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/marlen-reusser-holds-off-zoe-backstedt-to-retain-world-time-trial-cycling-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marlen Reusser holds off Zoe Backstedt to retain world time-trial cycling title\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}