Joanna Rowsell-Shand

Joanna Rowsell-Shand

Joanna Rowsell-Shand (2015)
To person
Date of birth	5th December 1988
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
End of career	2017
Most important successes
Olympic games 2016 - team pursuit 2012 - team pursuit UC-Bahn World Championships 2014 - individual pursuit, team pursuit 2012 - team pursuit 2009 - team pursuit 2008 - team pursuit
Last updated: July 20, 2018

Joanna Rowsell-Shand , b. Rowsell , MBE (born December 5, 1988 in Sutton ) is a former British cyclist. She is a two-time Olympic champion. She was five times world champion, four times European champion and won gold once at the Commonwealth Games .

Athletic career

Joanna Rowsell had her first major international success in 2008 when she first became world champion in team pursuit at the World Track Championships in Manchester (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Rebecca Romero ). In 2008 she became the European team pursuit champion.

In 2009 , Joanna Rowsell became world champion in team pursuit for the second time (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Elizabeth Armitstead ) and in 2012 for the third time, with Danielle King and Laura Trott . In the same composition, the British won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London , twice in one day improving their own world record , which they had set in April 2012 at the Rail World Cup in Melbourne .

In 2016 Rowsell-Shand was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Katie Archibald , Elinor Barker and Ciara Horne , she became an Olympic champion in the team pursuit. In March of the following year she announced her retirement from active cycling; she wants to work as a trainer in the future.

Private

In an interview, Rowsell said she started cycling in school just because math classes were canceled. The sportswoman suffers from circular hair loss and is almost bald. Rowsell said she wore wigs for years. Through cycling, however, she has gained so much self-confidence that she no longer hides her nakedness. She is active as an ambassador for the Alopecia UK association .

Joanna Rowsell is an older sister of cyclist Erick Rowsell . In May 2015 she married the former cyclist Daniel Shand and has been called Rowsell-Shand ever since .

Honors

Joanna Rowsell was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme . In January 2013 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire .

successes

train

Joanna Rowsell (2011)

2008

• World Champion Team Pursuit (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Rebecca Romero )
• UEC European Track Championships (U23) - Team Pursuit (with Elizabeth Armitstead and Katie Colclough )

2009

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Elizabeth Armitstead )
• Track Cycling World Cup 2008/09 overall ranking single pursuit
• Track Cycling World Cup 2008/09 overall team pursuit

2010

• Track World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Wendy Houvenaghel and Elizabeth Armitstead )

2011

• European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Danielle King and Laura Trott )
• British Champion - One Pursuit

2012

• Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit (with Danielle King and Laura Trott )
• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Danielle King and Laura Trott )

2014

• World Champion - Single Pursuit, Team Pursuit (with Laura Trott , Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker )
• Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit
• British Champion - Team Pursuit (with Elinor Barker , Danielle King and Laura Trott )

2015

• European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Laura Trott , Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker )
• British Champion - Team Pursuit (with Katie Archibald , Ciara Horne and Sarah Storey )

2016

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

Street

2013

• British Champion - Individual Time Trial

Teams

• 2007 Global Racing Team
• 2008 Halford's bike hat
• 2013 Wiggle Honda
• 2014 Wiggle Honda
• 2016 Podium Ambition Pro Cycling p / b Club la Santa

Web links

Commons : Joanna Rowsell-Shand  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Joanna Rowsell-Shand in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Joanna Rowsell-Shand in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Joanna Rowsell-Shand in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Commonwealth Games Federation - Joanna Rowsell. In: thecgf.com. Retrieved March 15, 2017 . 
• Joanna Rowsell's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two-time Olympic champion Joanna Rowsell Shand is ending her career. In: rad-net.de. March 15, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ London Cycling Campaign: "Joanna Rowsell: World Champion, Women's Team Pursuit", accessed on March 5, 2010 (English)
3. ↑ Courage of a golden girl: How cycling champion became an inspiration to alopecia suffers on dailymail.co.uk of February 21, 2012 (engl.)
4. ^ Alopecia Online - Joanna Rowsell MBE. (No longer available online.) In: alopeciaonline.org.uk. Archived from the original on January 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Miranda Bryant: Olympic cyclist Joanna Rowsell on marriage, the road to Rio and making. In: standard.co.uk. May 13, 2015, accessed January 16, 2016 .