Richardson saved GB Boxing’s blushes after his 5 team-mates didn’t make it to the rostrum, however the Colchester fighter has confronted many setbacks on his approach to Olympic success.
He missed out on qualification for Tokyo 2020 and his hopes of reaching Paris have been dented when his pure weight class – the middleweight division – was omitted from Paris.
However regardless of not having weighed 71kg since being a teen, Richardson dropped right down to light-middleweight and even self-funded a match in Portugal to realize expertise within the division.
“It was a problem nevertheless it was one thing I would not change for the world,” Richardson stated.
“If that is the sacrifice I’ve needed to make for the Olympic Video games and to grow to be an Olympic medallist then so be it.”
Richardson is now eyeing up a brand new tattoo and is ready for his image to be positioned up on the GB Boxing headquarters in Sheffield alongside the likes of Anthony Joshua, Amir Khan and Nicola Adams and different Crew GB boxing medallists.
“The Olympic ring tattoo is an announcement, a respect and honour to have represented your nation on the best occasion on this planet,” he added.
“To get my image on the wall at GB Boxing – it goes fairly underappreciated how vital that’s and the way valued it’s for us.”