{"id":25505,"date":"2026-02-06T03:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/european-track-cycling-championships-matt-richardson-wins-another-gold-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:09:41","slug":"european-track-cycling-championships-matt-richardson-wins-another-gold-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/european-track-cycling-championships-matt-richardson-wins-another-gold-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"European Track Cycling Championships: Matt Richardson wins another gold in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">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.<\/b><\/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\">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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c5yd16veypko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25507,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25505\/revisions\/25507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}