{"id":408361,"date":"2026-02-05T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408361\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:43:08","slug":"matt-richardson-wins-gold-at-european-track-cycling-championships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408361\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Richardson wins gold at European Track Cycling Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was a really hard-fought battle,&#8221; said Richardson, who represented Australia until August 2024. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408361","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=408361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}