{"id":455921,"date":"2026-02-05T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455921\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:56:07","slug":"european-track-cycling-championships-matt-richardson-wins-another-gold-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455921\/","title":{"rendered":"European Track Cycling Championships: Matt Richardson wins another gold in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Matt Richardson sealed a double success at the European Track Cycling Championships as he took gold in the men&#8217;s keirin on the last day in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fresh from being crowned sprint champion on Wednesday, the 26-year-old powered through the keirin rounds and launched a late move in the final to surge past Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cvgj2mz7gmxo\" class=\"ssrcss-ymbeas-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was also beaten to the sprint title.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richardson was competing in his first European Championships after changing racing nationality from Australia in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was really important to win the keirin and get the second jersey,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To me, that was really important to show that I do have the legs and that I&#8217;m here to stay.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team-mate Harry Ledingham-Horn finished sixth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Matt Richardson sealed a double success at the European Track Cycling Championships as he took gold in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-455921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}