Evie Richards

Evie Richards
Personal information
Born (1997-03-11) 11 March 1997
Team information
Discipline Mountain bike, cyclo-cross
Role Rider
Medal record
Women's mountain bike racing
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastCross-country
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
2015 VallnordCross-country (junior)
Women's cyclo-cross
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
2016 ZolderUnder-23
2018 ValkenburgUnder-23
2017 BielesUnder-23

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

References

  1. ↑ "Mountain Bike - Evie RICHARDS".
  2. 1 2 "British titles for Malvern cyclists Liam Killeen and Evie Richards". Malvern Gazette. 2016-01-14. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  3. ↑ "XCO > Women Juniors > Results". Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "Wyman wins her ninth national cyclo-cross title". 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  6. ↑ "Richards wins inaugural U23 women's cyclo-cross Worlds". Cycling News. 2016-01-30. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  7. ↑ Michelle Arthurs-Brennan (2016-01-30). "Evie Richards Wins First Under 23 Women's Cyclocross World Champs". Retrieved 2016-01-31.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.