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Feb 2023
Doctor from Ripon wins silver at e-cycling world championship
A junior doctor from Thornborough, near Ripon, has won a silver medal in e-cycling at the 2023 UCI E-sports World Championships.
Zoe Langham, who now works part-time as a junior doctor in Birmingham, went one better than last year, where she earned a bronze medal only hours after finishing a shift in A&E as part of her medical training.
E-cycling is a sport rapidly growing in popularity. It consists of cyclists pedalling on stationary bikes, powering virtual avatars moving on a screen.
Zwift, a competitor to Peleton, which provides the e-cycling technology and software for the world championship, has a reported user base of 2.5 million users, including runners as well as cyclists.
Former Ripon Grammar School student Zoe took up the sport to accommodate the demands of her medical training.
She balances her time on the wards alongside road racing and e-cycling. She competes for cycling team Pro-Noctis on the road and Wahoo Le Col in e-cycling.
Zoe studied at Ripon Grammar School before attending the University of Nottingham. Photo: Zoe Langham, Instagram
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The e-cycling world championship featured a new format for 2023, where competitors faced three short, explosive events.
The first event was The Punch, an 13.8km elimination-race where 100 riders competed with only the top 30 moving on the second race. In an interview after the competition, Zoe said:
The second event was The Climb, an 8.5km series of hill repetitions which whittled the field down to 10.
The final 10 then went through an event called The Podium, where riders were eliminated one-by-one at a series of intervals until three riders remained, who then raced for the title.
Reflecting on the race, Zoe said:
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