changed his allegiance<\/a> from Australia to the country of his birth after winning three medals at the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n“Coming away with a silver medal is bittersweet for me,” said the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n
“My first medal at a world championships in a GB skinsuit is going to feel amazing. I wish it was the top step, but I can’t come away too mad about that.”<\/p>\n
Richardson was joined by Joe Truman and Harry Ledingham-Horn in the men’s qualifying line-up and they placed second behind the Netherlands, the two-time defending champions.<\/p>\n
GB then beat Germany in round one and Hamish Turnbull replaced Ledingham-Horn for the final.<\/p>\n
GB led as Richardson peeled off following the second lap but Jeffrey Hoogland managed to close the gap on the final lap, crossing the line 0.37 seconds before Turnbull.<\/p>\n
Richardson, who secured his fifth world medal overall, added: “We’re a fresh line-up, so each time we step on the track we’re learning a little bit about each other.”<\/p>\n
Truman added: “It’s the closest we’ve ever been to the Dutch and it’s a really positive first step in the cycle [to LA 2028].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Richardson claimed his first medal for Great Britain as they won silver in the men’s and women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-219837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}