Evie Richards
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| Born | 11 March 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike, cyclo-cross | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Evie Richards (born 11 March 1997[1]) is a British cyclist who specialises in mountain bike and cyclo-cross racing. She became under-23 cyclo-cross world champion at the 2016 World Championships.
Richards comes from Malvern, and has ridden for T-Mo Racing.[2] She is a member of the British Cycling Olympic Development Programme.
She took the silver medal position in the junior cross-country race at the 2015 mountain bike World Championships, held in Vallnoord, Andorra in September 2015.[3][4]
Prior to 2016, under-23 cyclo-cross events have only been held for male competitors. Richards therefore raced in the elite category. She was 7th in the British national cyclo-cross championships in 2015.[5]
In mid-January 2016, Richards won the first women's under-23 British cyclo-cross championship in Shrewsbury.[2]
On 30 January 2016, Richards won the first ever women's U23 competition at the cyclo-cross world championships in Zolder, Belgium. She broke away in the first lap and finished the race 35 seconds ahead of the second-placed rider, Nikola Noskova.[6] It was the first cyclo-cross race Richards had taken part in outside the UK.[7]
References
- ↑ "Mountain Bike - Evie RICHARDS".
- 1 2 "British titles for Malvern cyclists Liam Killeen and Evie Richards". Malvern Gazette. 2016-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
- ↑ "XCO > Women Juniors > Results". Retrieved 2016-01-31.
- ↑ "Great Britain Cycling Team’s Evie Richards won silver with a gutsy and gifted ride in the junior women’s cross-country race at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Vallnord.". 2015-09-03. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
- ↑ "Wyman wins her ninth national cyclo-cross title". 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
- ↑ "Richards wins inaugural U23 women's cyclo-cross Worlds". Cycling News. 2016-01-30. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
- ↑ Michelle Arthurs-Brennan (2016-01-30). "Evie Richards Wins First Under 23 Women’s Cyclocross World Champs". Retrieved 2016-01-31.