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| Born | 12 September 2002 Glasgow, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Inspired/Lifeplus Wahoo (track) Lifeplus Wahoo (road) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Pursuitist (track) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022 | Alba Development RT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2023– | Lifeplus Wahoo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kate Richardson (born 12 September 2002) is a Scottish and British road and track cyclist. [1] [2]
A talented youth and junior athlete, Richardson won multiple national titles in her native Scotland in triathlon, athletics and cycling. [3] [4] [5]
She switched from triathlon in 2021 joining cycling road racing team Alba DRT. [6] She won the 2022 Ras na mBan road stage race in Ireland, [7] and double gold at the 2023 U23 & Junior European Championships (individual pursuit and team pursuit) in Anadia, Portugal. [8]
At the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships she won her first two national titles, winning the Individual Pursuit and the Team Pursuit. [9] [10]
On 12 May 2024, eight weeks after breaking a collarbone and fracturing her scapula in a crash at Drenthe, The Netherlands, Richardson returned to racing, winning the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix [11] by attacking on the penultimate climb of Michaelgate to break clear of the leading group and ride solo to the line.
On 5 June 2024, Richardson was forced to pull out of the Tour of Britain Women after fracturing her scapula for a second time and sustaining a concussion when she was hit by the driver of a 4x4 during a training ride. [12]
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