Evie Richards
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Full name | Evie Richards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 March 1997 Malvern, Worcestershire, England |
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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. In 2022, Richards added a first Commonwealth Games gold in cross-country mountain bike to her palmarès.
Life and career
Richards comes from Malvern and attended The Chase School. She first rode for T-Mo Racing. 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.
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. 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.
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. It was the first cyclo-cross race Richards had taken part in outside the UK.
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.
Major results
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
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UCI World Cup
- 1st Namur
- 3rd Hoogerheide
- 2018–2019
- 1st Waterloo
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UCI World Cup
- 2nd Iowa City
- 4th Waterloo
- 2019–2020
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UCI World Cup
- 3rd Waterloo
- 4th Namur
- 5th Iowa City
- 5th Hoogerheide
- 3rd Iowa City
UCI World Cup results
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 |
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
- 4th Cross-country, UCI World 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
- 4th Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 2020
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UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Nové Město #1
- 1st Nové Město #2
- Copa Catalana Internacional
- 1st Banyoles
- 3rd Overall Cyprus Sunshine Epic
- 4th Cross-country, UEC European Championships
- 2021
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UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 2nd Short track
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 1st Snowshoe
- 3rd Les Gets
- 5th Nové Město
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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
- Copa Catalana Internacional
- 1st Banyoles
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National Championships
- 2nd Cross-country
- 2nd Short track
- 2nd Overall Mediterranean Epic
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UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Petrópolis
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 3rd La Thuile
- CIMTB Michelin
- 3rd Petrópolis
- 2023
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National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Short track
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- 1st Chur
- National XCO Series
- 1st Margam
- 2nd Chelva
- 3rd Short track, UCI World Championships
- 3rd Overall UCI XCC World Cup
- Shimano Super Cup
- 3rd Banyoles
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UCI XCO World Cup
- 4th Nové Město
- 5th Vallnord
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 6 |
LEO 27 |
VAL 9 |
AND 5 |
LES 14 |
SNO | MON |