Laura Kenny

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Laura Kenny DBE, OLY
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Personal information
Born (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992 (age 32)
Harlow, Essex, England[1]
Height 1.63 m[2]
Weight 52 kg[2]
Team information
Current team Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Discipline Track and road
Rider type Sprinter (road) / Endurance (track)
Professional team(s)
2012 Team Ibis Cycles
2013–2014 Wiggle–Honda
2015 Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 5 1 0
World Championships 7 7 1
European Championships 14 3 1
Commonwealth Games 2 0 1
European U23 Championships 6 0 0
Total 34 11 3
Women's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Madison
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2013 Minsk Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2014 Cali Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 London Scratch
Gold medal – first place 2016 London Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2013 Minsk Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2014 Cali Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2015 Yvelines Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2020 Berlin Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2016 London Team pursuit
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Pruszków Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2013 Apeldoorn Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2014 Guadeloupe Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2015 Grenchen Scratch race
Gold medal – first place 2015 Grenchen Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2015 Grenchen Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Elimination race
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2019 Apeldoorn Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2019 Apeldoorn Madison
Silver medal – second place 2020 Plovdiv Omnium
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Plovdiv Madison
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Montichiari Omnium
U23 & Junior European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Anadia U23 Scratch race
Gold medal – first place 2011 Anadia U23 Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2011 Anadia U23 Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2013 Anadia U23 Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2013 Anadia U23 Points race
Gold medal – first place 2013 Anadia U23 Omnium
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Points race
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Scratch race
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham Team pursuit

Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny[3] DBE OLY (née Trott; born 24 April 1992) is a British track and road cyclist who specialises in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines. With six Olympic medals, having won both the team pursuit and the omnium at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and madison at the 2020 Olympics, along with a silver medal from the team pursuit at the 2020 Olympics, she is both the most successful female cyclist, and the most successful British female athlete, in Olympic history.[4] Her husband, Sir Jason Kenny, holds the same records on the male side, and together they are the most successful married couple in Olympic history where both spouses have won at least one gold medal (with 12 gold and three silver medals between them). Since first appearing at the European Track Championships in 2010,[5] she has won seven World Championship, 14 European Championship and two Commonwealth Games titles, as part of a total of 34 medals. On the road, Kenny won the British National Road Race Championships in 2014, taking the under-23 title in the same race, but has not competed since 2015.

Early life

Kenny was born a month prematurely in Harlow in Essex[1] with a collapsed lung and was later diagnosed with asthma. She was advised by doctors to take up sport in order to regulate her breathing. She enjoyed and competed in trampolining but had to give up due to respiratory problems.[6][7] She grew up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where she attended Turnford School.[1][8][9] Her older sister Emma Trott is a former road racing cyclist.[10] She is an avid supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.[11] She began in the sport together with her sister when they rode alongside their mother who had taken up cycling in order to lose weight.[12]

Career

She won two junior titles at both the 2009 and 2010 British National Track Championships,[13] and placed third in the individual pursuit at the latter[13] to win a place in the 2010 European Track Championships team pursuit squad aged just 18.[5] After winning gold at the Euros, she went on to take her first world title at the 2011 championships, again as part of the team pursuit squad.[5] In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics she won a further two World and two European golds, in both the team pursuit and the omnium,[14] before securing her place in the Great Britain team as those events made their Olympic debut. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Kenny won a gold medal in the team pursuit with Dani King and Joanna Rowsell.[15] The team set a world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.[16] Including pre-Olympics races and the Olympics final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race.[15] She also won gold in the omnium, two days after winning gold in the team pursuit.[17][18] For the 2012 road season, Kenny joined Team Ibis Cycles,[19] though she competed in only five races.[20] 2013 saw her increase her road racing commitments with new team Wiggle Honda.[21] Her best result was a second place at the British National Road Race Championships, bringing her the under-23 title,[22] though her road racing was intended to function in service of her track preparation, rather than replacing it.[23] Kenny took further World and European team pursuit gold medals at the 2013 and 2014 championships, as well as European ominium title and World ominium silver in both those years.[24] After making the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow her focus for this period,[23] she entered the games with a kidney infection and finished well down the field in the scratch race and individual pursuit.[25] Recovering as the Games progressed, she won a gold medal for England, in the points race.[26] On the road she went one better at the national road championships, winning the title for her first senior road race win.[27]

In February 2015, Kenny failed to win a title at the World Championships for the first time in her career, finishing second in both the team pursuit and omnium.[28] The result was part of a poor Championships for Britain, with the team finishing without a gold for the first time since 2001.[29] Trott moved to the new Matrix Fitness Vulpine team for 2015 as a lead rider,[30] moving to the team in order to better combine her road and track cycling ambitions.[29] After a road season in which her best result was 3rd in National Championships, Trott returned won three gold medals at the 2015 European Championships, in the team pursuit, scratch race and omnium.[31] She followed this with gold medals in the scratch race and omnium at the 2016 World Championships in London, as well as a bronze in the team pursuit.[32]

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Kenny (second from right) after she won the team pursuit gold at the 2016 Olympics

At the 2016 Olympics Trott was a favourite for the omnium, and with hopes of a medal in the team pursuit.[33] In the team pursuit, Great Britain took gold setting world records in the qualification and final of the tournament, defeating the American world champions in the final. This made Trott the first British woman to win three golds,[34][35] though this achievement was matched by Charlotte Dujardin the next day.[36] In the Ominium, Trott dominated from the start and finished in the top two in five of the six events, to take a comfortable gold medal and once again become Britain's most successful female Olympian.[37][38] Following the end of the track cycling competition at the games, Trott and her fiancé Jason Kenny were lauded in the British press as a 'golden couple', having won five gold medals between them in 2016, to reach a total of ten as a couple.[39][40][41]

At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021, Kenny and her team-mates took the silver medal in the team pursuit: they briefly held the world record after their ride in the first round before Germany set a faster time in the next heat and secured a place in the gold medal final against Team GB. Germany broke their world record again in the final to win the gold, finishing six seconds ahead of the British team.[42] Kenny and Katie Archibald subsequently went on to become the first Olympic champions in the women's Madison with a dominant performance, winning 10 of the race's 12 sprints and gaining a lap on the field with 20 laps to go to secure a total of 78 points, more than twice the score of the second-placed Danish team. The win made Kenny the first British woman to win golds at three consecutive Olympics, the most successful female cyclist in Olympic history, eclipsing Leontien van Moorsel, and tied her with Charlotte Dujardin for the most Olympic medals won by a British female sportsperson.[4] In the omnium, Kenny's medal hopes suffered a setback in the opening scratch race when she was involved in a multi-rider crash on the penultimate lap. She went on to win the tempo race but could only finish 13th in the elimination race. After the closing points race she moved up from ninth place to finish sixth in the overall standings.[43] Kenny was subsequently selected as the flag bearer for the British team at the Games' closing ceremony.[44]

Personal life

Trott married track cyclist Jason Kenny at a private ceremony on 24 September 2016.[45] The couple live near Knutsford in Cheshire.[46] Their son was born on 23 August 2017.[47] In November 2021, she suffered a miscarriage at nine weeks, and in January 2022, she underwent a surgery due to ectopic pregnancy.[48]

Honours and awards

Trott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling[49][50] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours, also for services to cycling.[51] Both Laura and Jason Kenny received their CBEs on Tuesday 25 April 2017 at an Investiture in Buckingham Palace.[52] Taken together, Laura and Jason Kenny won 12 Olympic gold medals, which places them among the most successful Olympic medalist families of all time. She received an Honorary Degree from the University of Essex in 2013.[53]

In 2014, the former Grundy Park Leisure Centre in Cheshunt was renamed The Laura Trott Leisure Centre in her honour following a £4 million redevelopment. Trott attended the launch ahead of competing in stage four of the first Women's Tour from Cheshunt to Welwyn Garden City.[54]

Kenny was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[55] Her husband Jason was knighted in the same list, also for services to cycling. As a result she is styled ‘Lady Kenny’ because she is the wife of a knight[56] They were both invested at Windsor Castle on 17 May 2022.[57]

Major results

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Track

2008
3rd Sprint, National Junior Track Championships
2009
National Junior Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
2nd 500m TT
3rd Madison (with Hannah Mayho)
2010
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
National Junior Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG 500m TT
2nd Points race
2nd Scratch race
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Derny Championships
3rd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
2011
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
UEC European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
UEC European U23 Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Individual Pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Scratch Race
1st Team Pursuit (with Katie Colclough and Dani King)
UCI Track World Cup
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit – Cali
3rd Omnium – Cali
National Track Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
2nd Scratch race
3rd 500m TT
2012
Olympic Games
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Omnium
UCI Track World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
UCI Track World Cup
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit – London
1st Gold medal blank.svg Omnium – Glasgow
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit – Glasgow
3rd Omnium – London
2013
UCI Track World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
UEC European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
UEC European U23 Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Individual Pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Points Race
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road Race, National U23 Road Championships
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison
UCI Track World Cup
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit – Manchester
1st Gold medal blank.svg Omnium – Manchester
2nd Omnium – Aguascalientes
3rd Scratch Race, Revolution – Round 1, Manchester
2014
UCI Track World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
UEC European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
1st Gold medal blank.svg Points race, Commonwealth Games
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Scratch race
2nd Individual pursuit
3rd Points race
UCI Track World Cup
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit – Guadalajara
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit – London
1st Gold medal blank.svg Omnium – London
Revolution
1st Omnium – Round 1, London
1st Points Race – Round 4, Manchester
1st Scratch Race – Round 4, Manchester
1st Omnium – Round 5, London
1st Points Race – Round 2, Manchester
3rd Scratch Race – Round 2, Manchester
1st Omnium, Fenioux Piste International
2015
UEC European Track Championships
1st 20px Team pursuit
1st 20px Scratch race
1st 20px Omnium
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual Pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Scratch race
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
Revolution
1st Omnium – Round 1, Derby
1st Points Race – Round 2, Manchester
1st Points Race – Round 4, Glasgow
1st Points Race – Round 5, London
1st Scratch Race – Round 4, Glasgow
1st Scratch Race – Round 5, London
2nd Scratch Race – Round 1, Derby
3rd Individual Pursuit – Round 1, Derby
3rd Scratch Race – Round 6, Manchester
Grand Prix of Poland
1st Omnium[58]
1st Scratch race[59]
UCI Track World Championships
2nd Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
2nd Omnium, Internationale Radsport Meeting
2016
Olympic Games
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Omnium
UCI Track World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Scratch race
3rd Team pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Madison Championships
Revolution
1st Points Race - Round 5, Manchester
1st Points Race - Round 6, Manchester
1st Scratch Race - Round 6, Manchester
2nd Scratch Race - Round 5, Manchester
1st Omnium, Grand Prix of Poland
1st Omnium, Fenioux Piste International
Revolution Champions League
2nd Omnium - Round 2, London
2nd Scratch Race - Round 2, London
3rd Points Race - Round 2, London
2018
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Omnium
2021
Olympic Games
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Madison (with Katie Archibald)
2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit

Road

2009
2nd National Criterium Championships
2011
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships
2013
1st RideLondon GrandPrix
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2014
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships
1st Overall Surf & Turf 2-Day[60]
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
2015
3rd Road race, National Road Championships

See also

References

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External links

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