Evie Richards
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] In 2022, Richards added a first Commonwealth Games gold in cross-country mountain bike to her palmarès.
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| Born | 11 March 1997 Malvern, Worcestershire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Life and career
Richards comes from Malvern and attended The Chase School.[2] She first rode for T-Mo Racing.[3] 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.[4][5]
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.[3] 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.[6]
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.[7] It was the first cyclo-cross race Richards had taken part in outside the UK.[8]
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.[9]
Major results
Mountain bike
- 2014
- 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2015
- 2nd
Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships - 2016
- 1st
Cross-country, National Under-23 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
Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships - 2017
- 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 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 Cross-country, National Under-23 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 Cross-country, National Under-23 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
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Cross-country - 2nd Short track
- 1st
- 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
- 2022
- 1st
Cross–country, Commonwealth Games[10] - Copa Catalana Internacional
- 1st Banyoles
- National Championships
- 2nd Cross-country
- 2nd Short track
- 2nd Overall Mediterranean Epic
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Petrópolis
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 3rd La Thuile
- CIMTB Michelin
- 3rd Petrópolis
- 2023
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- 1st Chur
- National XCO Series
- 1st Margam
- 2nd Chelva
- Shimano Super Cup
- 3rd Banyoles
UCI World Cup results
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
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| 2020 | LEN NH |
VAL NH |
LES NH |
NOV 8 |
NOV 6 |
5 | 320 | ||||
| 2021 | ALB 25 |
NOV 5 |
LEO 6 |
LES 3 |
LEN 1 |
SNO 1 |
2 | 1000 | |||
| 2022 | PET — |
ALB 16 |
NOV 36 |
LEO — |
LEN — |
AND — |
SNO — |
MON — |
VAL 7 |
39 | 316 |
| 2023 | NOV 4 |
LEN | LEO | VAL | AND | LES | SNO | MON | |||
Cyclo-cross
- 2014–2015
- 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 Namur
- 3rd Hoogerheide
- 2018–2019
- 1st Waterloo
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Iowa City
- 2019–2020
- UCI World Cup
- 3rd Waterloo
- 3rd Iowa City
References
- "Mountain Bike - Evie RICHARDS".
- Cossali-Francis, Marcello (16 June 2022). "Commonwealth Games: Evie Richards selected by Team England". Malvern Gazette.
- "British titles for Malvern cyclists Liam Killeen and Evie Richards". Malvern Gazette. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- "XCO > Women Juniors > Results". Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. 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.
- "Cycling - Mountain Bike - Women's Cross-country results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
External links
- Evie Richards at Cycling Archives
- Evie Richards at ProCyclingStats
- Evie Richards at CQ Ranking
- Evie Richards at CycleBase
- Evie Richards at UCI
- Evie Richards at Olympedia
- Evie Richards at Olympics.com
- Evie Richards at Team GB
- Evie Richards at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archive)