Mountain Bike World Cup: Evie Richards wins short track race in Snowshoe

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Great Britain's Evie Richards

Great Britain’s Evie Richards won the women’s cross-country short track race at the Mountain Bike World Cup in West Virginia.

Richards finished in 19 minutes 54 seconds in Snowshoe to beat Dutchwoman Puck Pieterse by five seconds, with Australia’s Rebecca Henderson a further four seconds back.

“I can’t believe it. I’m well happy,” Commonwealth champion Richards, 26, told Eurosport.external-link “To finally get a win at the end of the year with my new coach is sick, and we’re really happy.”

Runner-up in the past two World Cup races, Richards is third in the overall standings before the final eventexternal-link in Mont-Sainte-Anna in Quebec, Canada, from 5-8 October.

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