Evie Richards
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| Born | 11 March 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike, cyclo-cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 and 2018 World Championships.
Richards comes from Malvern, she first rode for T-Mo Racing.[2] She is a member of the British Cycling Olympic Senior Academy.
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 were only held for male competitors, Richards therefore raced in the elite category. Since the introduction of under-23 events, Richards has won all three editions (2016, 2017, 2018) of the British National Cyclo-cross Championships.[2] In addition, she was 7th in the women's elite category and 2nd in the junior category in the British national cyclo-cross championships in 2015.[5]
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]
Major results
- 2015–2016
- 1st
UCI World Under-23 Championships - 1st
National Under-23 Championships - 2nd
Cross–country, UCI Junior MTB World Championships - 2016–2017
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 3rd
UCI World Under-23 Championships - 2017–2018
- 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Cross–country, Commonwealth Games
- 2018–2019
- 1st Trek CX Cup
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Jingle Cross
References
- ^ "Mountain Bike - Evie RICHARDS".
- ^ a b "British titles for Malvern cyclists Liam Killeen and Evie Richards". Malvern Gazette. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ "XCO > Women Juniors > Results". Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ "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". 3 September 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ "Wyman wins her ninth national cyclo-cross title". 13 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ "Richards wins inaugural U23 women's cyclo-cross Worlds". Cycling News. 30 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ Michelle Arthurs-Brennan (30 January 2016). "Evie Richards Wins First Under 23 Women's Cyclocross World Champs". Retrieved 31 January 2016.