Evie Richards
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Full name | Evie Richards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Malvern, Worcestershire | 11 March 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Trek Factory Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Evie Richards (born 11 March 1997)is a British cyclist from Malvern, Worcestershire, England who specialises in mountain bike and cyclo-cross racing. who became the women's cross-country world champion at the 2021 Mountain Bike World Championships. Previously, Richards had been under-23 cyclo-cross world champion at the 2016 and 2018 World Championships.[1]
Life[]
Richards comes from Malvern, and 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. After the introduction of under-23 events, Richards won the first 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]
Richards was chosen to be part of the UK's cycling squad at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she achieved a 7th place finish. [8]
Major results[]
Cyclo-cross[]
- 2nd National Junior Championships
- 2015–2016
- 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- National Trophy Series
- 1st Bradford
- 2016–2017
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- National Trophy Series
- 1st Abergavenny
- 3rd UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 2017–2018
- 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- UCI World Cup
- 1st Citadelcross
- 3rd Grand Prix Adri van der Poel
- 2018–2019
- 1st Trek Cup
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Jingle Cross
- 2019–2020
- UCI World Cup
- 3rd Waterloo
- 3rd Jingle Cross
Mountain Bike[]
- 2014
- 2nd National Junior XCO Championships
- 2015
- 2nd UCI World Junior XCO Championships
- 2016
- 1st National Under-23 XCO Championships
- National XCO Series
- 1st Builth Wells
- 1st Dalby Forest
- 1st Plymouth
- 1st Int. KitzAlpBike-Festival
- UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 2nd Milan
- 3rd UEC European Under-23 XCO Championships
- 2017
- 1st National Under-23 XCO Championships
- 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 1st Albstadt
- 2nd Nové Město
- 3rd Vallnord
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 3rd Val di Sole
- Copa Catalana Internacional
- 1st Vall de Boi
- National XCO Series
- 2018
- 1st National Under-23 XCO Championships
- National XCO Series
- 1st Builth Wells
- 2nd Cross–country, Commonwealth Games
- Internazionali d’Italia Series
- 2nd Chies d'Alpago
- 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2nd Val di Sole
- 2nd Vallnord
- 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 2nd La Bresse
- 3rd Stellenbosch
- 2019
- 1st National Under-23 XCO Championships
- 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 2nd Vallnord
- 2nd Les Gets
- 2nd Val di Sole
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 1st La Thuile
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 2nd Andermatt
- National XCO Series
- 2nd Cannock Chase
- 2020
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Nové Město #1
- 1st Nové Město #2
- Copa Catalana Internacional
- 1st Banyoles
- 3rd Overall Cyprus Sunshine Epic
- 2021
- 1st UCI World XCO Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 1st Snowshoe
- 3rd Les Gets
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Gränichen
- Internazionali d’Italia Series
- 1st La Thuile
- Copa Catalana Internacional
- 1st Banyoles
- 2nd UCI World XCC Championships
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.
- ^ "Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
External links[]
- Living people
- 1997 births
- English female cyclists
- Cyclo-cross cyclists
- People from Malvern, Worcestershire
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Worcestershire
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics