Richardson completes 200m flying start in 8.941sec
Tanfield falls short in attempt to break hour record
The British pair Matt Richardson and Will Bjergfelt both set world records in Turkey on Thursday.
Richardson became the first man to go under nine seconds in the 200m flying start, recording a time of 8.941sec in Konya. The 26-year-old, who switched allegiance from Australia to Britain last year, surpassed the previous record set by Harrie Lavreysen of the Netherlands.
Richardson said: “I did it. I came here to do that, and that’s what I did, so it’s a pretty cool feeling to accomplish the one thing that I came out here to do. A bit of relief there. It was a lot faster [than I’ve previously ridden], I was basically just a passenger. I gave the bike a bit of direction and it was just steering itself almost.”
