The 2016 season had one main focus - the Rio Olympics - although the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in London proved a disappointment in the team pursuit, with Kenny having to settle for the bronze medal before she recovered superbly to take golds in the scratch race and omnium. Representing England and Team GB. Article bookmarked. Support our nation’s best athletes in pursuing their dream of representing their country at an Olympic Games. By the time the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championship in Paris arrived in February, however, team pursuit rivals had finally closed the gap on Kenny’s team with Australia qualifying fastest and winning the final by nearly three full seconds. After finishing second in the opening event, the scratch race, she went on to keep her major rivals at bay throughout the remaining five disciplines and went on to add a fourth gold to her collection in impressive fashion by a commanding 24-point margin. With the women’s team pursuit now a four-rider, four-kilometre event, the British won the title at that year’s UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn with Kenny doing likewise in the omnium. - Team GB Cycling Media Day The summer of 2014 also brought Kenny a thrilling Commonwealth Games gold in the points race and one of the highlights of her road career when she won the British National Road Race Championships before Kenny successfully defended her two titles in the team pursuit and omnium at the UEC European Track Championships. Gold Jaroslav Kulhavy (Czech Republic) – men’s mountain bike Julie Bresset (France) – women’s mountain bike Trouvez les Elinor Barker images et les photos d’actualités parfaites sur Getty Images. [7] 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. Laura Kenny won the hearts of the British public at the London 2012 Olympic Games where, at the age of just 20, she captured gold medals on the track in the team pursuit and the multi-discipline omnium event. Her public profile was heightened by her relationship with fellow Olympic gold medallist Jason Kenny and, at Christmas 2014, the pair announced their engagement and subsequently married on 24 September 2016. [26] After making the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow her focus for this period,[25] she entered the games with a kidney infection and finished well down the field in the scratch race and individual pursuit. Trott attended the launch ahead of competing in stage four of the first Women's Tour from Cheshunt to Welwyn Garden City. [33] 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. TeamGB.com the home of the British Olympic Association | Latest news, video, stats, information from Team GB and the Olympic Games A lifelong fan of musician Bruce Springsteen, one of Laura’s main interests away from cycling centres around her dogs Sprolo and Pringle - springer-poodle cross-breeds. 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Rally Cycling (17) Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise (21) Team Arkéa Samsic (27) Team Novo Nordisk (17) Team Total Direct Energie (27) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team (26) Vini Zabù (21) Teams. Team GB turned up the heat halfway through the team pursuit final to shrug off the challenge of Germany and claim European Track Championship gold with Laura Kenny winning her 13th European title. On the road, Kenny won the British National Road Race Championships in 2014, taking the under-23 title in the same race, and has ridden for the Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling team since 2015. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Choisissez parmi des contenus premium Katie Archibald de la plus haute qualité. The 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, Belarus saw Great Britain retain their team pursuit world crown. Aug 4, 2016 - Laura Trott Photos - Laura Trott of Team GB trains during a Team GB Cycling Media Day at the National Cycling Centre on February 9, 2015 in Manchester, England. Team GB is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team run by the British Olympic Association. To link accounts please enter your British Cycling password. © 2021 British CyclingAll Rights Reserved. Highlights included team pursuit gold at her debut UCI Track Cycling World Championships and at the UEC European Track Championships, where Kenny also took the omnium title. This made Trott the first British woman to win three golds,[5][36] though this achievement was matched by Charlotte Dujardin the next day. That form earned Kenny selection to the UEC European Track Championships and her first elite gold medal in the team pursuit, aged only 18, before an astonishing 2011 season which saw Kenny win seven world, World Cup and European titles at junior and elite levels. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. I Am Team GB, The Nation's Biggest Sports Day and supported by Toyota, returns this August and will once again provide thousands of people across the country with opportunities to get active this summer as the countdown continues to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Laura Kenny with teammates from the GB Cycling women's endurance team during a training session at the HSBC National Cycling Centre, Manchester. Team GB have enjoyed unprecedented levels of track cycling success in recent Games, winning eleven gold medals at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, helping GB amass over 60 … [28] On the road she went one better at the national road championships, winning the title for her first senior road race win. 1,716 talking about this. [44] On 14 February 2017, it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child. Just as significantly, in the omnium, Kenny turned the tables on Hammer and Edmondson and added gold. Laura Kenny was part of the GB quartet that qualified for the women's team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in her first major event since giving birth six months ago. Great Britain Cycling Team capitalise on development opportunities on the final day in Imola. The velodrome rocked to another brilliant, British cycling victory. Picture by Ben Stevens Tuesday 12th of November 2019. Since first appearing at the European Track Championships in 2010,[7] she has won seven World Championship, a record fourteen European Championship and one Commonwealth Games titles, as part of a total of 29 medals. [38][39] 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.[40][41][42]. It was the team's worst Worlds since 2001, but Trott insists those results have motivated Team GB. Team GB cycling gold medallists in tandem: Laura Trott and Jason Kenny confirm relationship Pa. Thursday 09 August 2012 21:04. Growing up in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, Kenny and older sister Emma, who would go on to become a professional road rider, first took up the sport when their mother Glenda decided to cycle to lose weight. Laura Kenny's parents are Glenda and Adrian Trott, who live in Cheshunt, and she has an older sister Emma, who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. Sometimes you would be right to think the world of track cycling hates us for the fact we are currently the best in the world. 2019-12-10 - Explore Joe Chang's board "Team GB Cycling" on Pinterest. She was advised by doctors to take up sport in order to regulate her breathing. [30] The result was part of a poor Championships for Britain, with the team finishing without a gold for the first time since 2001. [19][20], For the 2012 road season, Trott joined Team Ibis Cycles,[21] though she competed in only five races. With four Olympic gold medals, having won both the team pursuit and the omnium at both the 2012 and 2016 games, she is both the most successful female track cyclist in Olympic history (behind only Dutch track and road cyclist Leontien van Moorsel among all female cyclists), and Great Britain's most successful Olympic female competitor in any sport. [22] 2013 saw her increase her road racing commitments with new team Wiggle Honda. An uncharacteristically poor points race left Kenny with a mountain to climb but, by the final event the 500-metre time trial, her storming victory meant the Briton had won the gold medal by one point from Hammer. Read more World & ProTeams; Womens World & Continental teams; Continental teams; Info. They named him Albert Louie Kenny. Momentum was building nicely for Kenny, and the whole of the Great Britain Cycling Team, as their home Olympics loomed at the start of 2012. Nov 8, 2016 - Laura Kenny (Laura Trott), OBE is an English track and road cyclist who specialises in the team pursuit, omnium and scratch race disciplines. Great offers on becoming a British Cycling member, however you ride. Trott married track cyclist Jason Kenny at a private ceremony on 24 September 2016. Kenny’s remarkable story had a remarkable beginning, the double Olympic champion was born a month prematurely in Harlow, Essex, with a collapsed lung and later diagnosed with asthma. [17] She also won gold in the omnium, two days after winning gold in the team pursuit. In the team pursuit, the tried and trusted trio of Kenny, Rowsell Shand and King rode three times and broke the world record on each occasion, beating the USA in the final. You only need to do this once. William Fotheringham. After an extended post-Rio break where Kenny gave birth to her first child, she made her return to elite competition less than six months after her son was born, competing at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, winning silver as part of a five-woman team pursuit squad alongside Archibald, Barker, Emily Nelson and Ellie Dickinson. Laura Rebecca Kenny,[3] CBE (née Trott; born 24 April 1992) is an English[4][5][6] track and road cyclist who specialises in the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race and madison disciplines. [7] 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 ominum,[16] before securing her place in the Great Britain team as those events made their Olympic debut. 0 comments. [43] The couple live near Knutsford in Cheshire. Issue date: Monday 26th... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images [13], Together with her sister, she began cycling when her mother did so to lose weight.[14]. Laura Kenny targeting three gold medals at Tokyo Olympics as Team GB record in sight Laura Kenny wants to compete in three disciplines if the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics goes ahead later this year. We have found a match between your Facebook account and British Cycling. Her performance in the omnium was every bit as dominant. Advised to try sport to help with her breathing, Kenny first participated in trampolining before being forced to stop due to an undiagnosed condition that caused her to sporadically pass out. [17] The team set a world record time of 3:14.051 in this event. Along with father Adrian, the family would spend weekends on lengthy bike rides with Laura eventually starting to race, at the age of eight, and ride at the track of local club Welwyn Wheelers.