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Full name | Evie Richards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1997-03-11) 11 March 1997 (age 27) Malvern, Worcestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Trek Factory Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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] In 2022, Richards added a first Commonwealth Games gold in cross-country mountain bike to her palmarès.
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]
Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Rank | Points |
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2016–2017 | LAS — | IOW — | VAL — | KOK NH | ZEV 14 | NAM 11 | ZOL — | FIU — | HOO 6 | 34 | 127 | |||||
2017–2018 | IOW — | WAT — | KOK — | BOG — | ZEV — | NAM 1 | ZOL — | NOM — | HOO 3 | 33 | 145 | |||||
2018–2019 | WAT 4 | IOW 2 | BER — | TAB 15 | KOK 9 | NAM — | ZOL — | PON — | HOO — | 23 | 210 | |||||
2019–2020 | IOW 5 | WAT 3 | BER — | TAB — | KOK — | NAM 4 | ZOL — | NOM — | HOO 5 | 19 | 235 | |||||
2020–2021 | WAT NH | DUB NH | ZON NH | KOK NH | BES NH | TAB — | ANT NH | NAM 6 | DIE NH | DEN — | HUL — | VIL NH | HOO NH | OVE 8 | 17 | 38 |
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 6 | LEO 27 | VAL 9 | AND 5 | LES 14 | SNO 7 | MON DNF | 9 | 1156 | |
2024 | MAI 9 | ARA 8 | NOV — | VAL 29 | CRA 5 | LES | LAK | MON |