Danielle Rowe

Danielle Rowe
	Danielle Rowe (2018)
To person
Date of birth	November 21, 1990
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Train / street
End of career	2018
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2012 - team pursuit UCI track world championships 2011, 2012, 2013 - team pursuit
	Last updated: December 7, 2018

King (center) with her teammates Elinor Barker (r.) And Laura Trott (2012)

Danielle "Dani" Rowe , née King , MBE (born November 21, 1990 in Southampton ) is a former British cyclist and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

2009 and 2010 Dani King won four national titles in various disciplines in the two-team driving , in Dernyrennen in the Team Pursuit and the criterion . In addition, the athlete, who then lived in Belgium, also achieved minor successes in road races.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn , King won two medals: gold in the team pursuit, together with Wendy Houvenaghel and Laura Trott , and bronze in scratch ; the following year she became world champion in this discipline for a second time , together with Trott and Joanna Rowsell . In the same line-up, the three British riders won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London , twice in one day breaking their own world record, which they set in April 2012 at the World Track Championships in Melbourne .

At the UCI Track World Championships 2013 in Minsk , Danielle King again became world champion in the team pursuit together with Laura Trott and Elinor Barker .

In the following years King was increasingly active in road cycling . In 2018 she finished second overall in the Tour de Yorkshire and third in the Women's Tour . At the end of the season, she announced her retirement from competitive cycling.

Honors

Dani King was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme .

Personal

In September 2017, Dani King married former cyclist Matthew Rowe and took her husband's name.

successes

train

2011

World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Laury Trott )

World Championship - Scratch

European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Laura Trott )

U23 European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Katie Colclough and Laura Trott )

U23 European Championship - Omnium

2012

Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit (with Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Laura Trott )

World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Laury Trott )

2013

World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Elinor Barker and Laury Trott )

European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Katie Archibald , Elinor Barker and Laura Trott )

2014

British Champion - Team Pursuit (with Elinor Barker , Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Laura Trott )

Street

2008

one stage Omloop van Borsele (juniors)

2018

Commonwealth Games - road racing

Teams

2009 Vision 1 Racing
2013 Wiggle Honda
2014 Wiggle Honda
2015 Wiggle Honda
2016 Wiggle High5
2017 Cylance Cycling
2018 WaowDeals Pro Cycling

Web links

Commons : Danielle King - collection of images, videos and audio files

Danielle Rowe in the Radsportseiten.net database

Danielle Rowe in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Danielle Rowe in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Rowe & King website

Individual evidence

↑ Olympic gold medalist Dani Rowe retires. In: shropshirestar.com. December 5, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
↑ Jabeen Waheede: Cyclists Dani King and Matthew Rowe wed in 'fairytale' Welsh ceremony. In: dailymail.co.uk. October 10, 2017, accessed June 19, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rowe, Danielle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	King, Dani (short name); King, Danielle (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Southampton

[shropshi-181205-1] Olympic gold medalist Dani Rowe retires. In: shropshirestar.com. December 5, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .

[co-965604-2] Jabeen Waheede: Cyclists Dani King and Matthew Rowe wed in 'fairytale' Welsh ceremony. In: dailymail.co.uk. October 10, 2017, accessed June 19, 2018 .