{"id":49143,"date":"2026-02-04T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=49143"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:31:25","slug":"cvgj2mz7gmxoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/cvgj2mz7gmxoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Richardson wins gold at European Track Cycling Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><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 gold medallist in 2024, 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><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Matt #Richardson #wins #gold #European #Track #Cycling #Championships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was a really hard-fought battle,&#8221; said Richardson, who represented Australia until August 2024. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying to beat Harrie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49145,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49143\/revisions\/49145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}