Matt Richardson gained the boys’s dash and keirin finals on the Observe Champions League occasion in France as he raced for Nice Britain for the primary time since switching nationality from Australia.
The 25-year-old, who was born in Kent however moved to Western Australia on the age of 9, raced for Australia on the Olympics in Paris
He was crushed by Harrie Lavreysen within the males’s dash last on the Video games in the summertime however, on the similar Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome and in the identical occasion, Richardson beat the Dutchman in spectacular fashion in spherical considered one of this season’s Observe Champions League.
Richardson went spherical the surface of Lavreysen earlier than occurring to safe victory as his opponent backed off within the last stretch after he was unable to maintain up.
Afterward within the males’s keirin, Richardson moved out of Lavreysen’s slipstream earlier than accelerating to victory.
“I’ve by no means crushed Harrie in dash and keirin on the identical night time so to do it’s fairly cool,” mentioned Richardson.
“I needed to race effectively and take confidence for the remainder of the sequence.”
Nice Britain’s Katie Archibald, who had missed the Olympics after breaking her leg in a freak accident, was additionally in spectacular kind as she gained the ladies’s scratch and elimination races.
Archibald held off Norway’s Anita Stenberg to win the scratch race earlier than popping out on high within the elimination race.
“I am actually completely satisfied,” mentioned Archibald. “I am doing every thing to get the very best consequence doable and maintain on so long as I can. I will scrap for each single level.”
Nice Britain’s Emma Finucane beat Martha Bayona, of Colombia, to say victory within the girls’s dash, whereas compatriot Will Perrett gained the boys’s elimination race.
The following spherical of the sequence can be a double header in Apeldorn within the Netherlands on 29 and 30 November.
