16-03-2025
GB's Richardson adds individual sprint gold to team title
Matthew Richardson won men's sprint gold at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Turkey, two days after helping Great Britain to team glory.
Kent-born Richardson, competing for GB having switched nationality from Australia last year, beat British team-mate Harry Ledingham-Horn in Sunday's final.
On Friday, Richardson, Ledingham-Horn and Harry Radford set a new British record on their way to gold in the men's team sprint.
Having been the fastest in qualifying, the British trio posted a record time of 41.788 seconds in the first round, before Ledingham-Horn reversed a narrow deficit against Japan in the gold-medal ride.
Britain's only other medal of the event came in the women's team sprint, with Lowri Thomas, Lauren Bell and Rhian Edmunds taking home silver medals.
