{"id":18895,"date":"2026-02-05T03:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18895"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:18:34","slug":"matt-richardson-wins-gold-at-european-track-cycling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18895","title":{"rendered":"Matt Richardson wins gold at European Track Cycling Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a really hard-fought battle,&#8221; said Richardson, who represented Australia until August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying to beat Harrie for many, many years, so it&#8217;s really satisfying to finally get on that top step [of the podium].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/67976508\" class=\"ssrcss-ymbeas-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">gold medallist in 2024<\/a>, Knight regained the European individual pursuit title as Britain celebrated a double podium, with Millie Couzens taking bronze on her debut. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knight set a 4km world record of four minutes 19.461 seconds, knocking 4.181 seconds off Vittoria Bussi&#8217;s mark from May 2025, before dominating Federica Venturelli in the gold medal ride-off to win in 4:22.353.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The day rounded off a strong showing for Great Britain, with Sophie Capewell  finishing fourth in the women&#8217;s 1km time trial, and Henry Hobbs coming fourth in the men&#8217;s omnium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With one more day of racing, Great Britain sit top of the medal table with six golds, three silvers and two bronzes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cvgj2mz7gmxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was a really hard-fo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}