Laura Kenny

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Laura Kenny Road cycling
Laura Kenny (2019)
Laura Kenny (2019)
To person
Full name Laura Rebecca Kenny
Nickname Trotty
Date of birth April 24, 1992
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Train / street
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games
2016 gold - Omnium
2016 gold - team pursuit
2012 gold - Omnium
2012 gold - team pursuit
Last updated: June 4, 2020
European champion in the Omnium: Trott (center) with Amalie Dideriksen (left) and Aušrinė Trebaitė
Laura Kenny in the Omnium at the Rail World Cup 2020

Laura Rebecca Kenny , b. Trott , CBE , (born April 24, 1992 in Harlow ) is a British cyclist , four-time Olympic champion (as of 2016) and seven-time world champion. She is the most successful British female track cyclist of the 2010s.

Athletic career

2010 Laura Trott European champion in the team pursuit , along with Katie Colclough and Wendy Houvenaghel . At the 2011 UCI Track World Championships , she became world champion in team pursuit, together with Houvenaghel and Danielle King . In 2011 she became double European champion in the team pursuit and in the Omnium in Apeldoorn , making her the most successful athlete at the European Championships. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2012 , she again won two gold medals, in the team pursuit and as the youngest starter in the Omnium.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Trott won two gold medals, one in the Omnium and another in the team pursuit, together with King and Joanna Rowsell , with the riders breaking their own world record twice in one day, which they set in April 2012 at the track World Cup in Melbourne . At the UCI Track World Championships 2013 in Minsk , she was again world champion in team pursuit together with Danielle King and Elinor Barker ; in the Omnium, she took second place.

In 2014 Laura Trott (nickname: "Trotty") became British road racing champion . In the 2015 UEC European Track Championships in Switzerland Grenchen she won three gold medals in the Omnium, in the team pursuit and the scratch. With a total of ten titles, Trott is the most successful female cyclist at European championships to date.

In 2016 Trott was nominated to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after becoming world champion in Omnium and Scratch in the spring of that year . In Rio she became Olympic champion in omnium and team pursuit.

In February 2018, Laura Trott announced that, after the birth of a child in August 2017, she would be competing internationally for the first time at the 2018 UCI Track World Championships , where she won silver in the team pursuit with the British team. Shortly before, she had become the British Omnium Champion. In the same year she won gold medals in various disciplines in four rounds of track cycling world cups. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2019 , she won silver in the team pursuit with the British four-man team, became European champion in the team pursuit and won two silver medals.

Honors

Laura Trott was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme . In 2013 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 2014, the Grundy Park Leisure Center in Cheshunt was renamed The Laura Trott Leisure Center after a £ 4 million renovation.

In 2013 she was ranked 42nd on the UK ranking of the “100 Sexiest Women in the World” by the men's magazine FHM .

In 2016 Laura Kenny was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Sunday Times and also named "Woman of the Year" by Harper's Bazaar . In January 2017 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire . A few weeks later she was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Awards as World Sportswoman of the Year .

Private

Laura Trott was engaged to her teammate Jason Kenny since Christmas 2014 . Together, the couple had won ten Olympic gold medals by 2016. Their relationship was 2,012 randomly become public, as they at a beach volleyball match at the Olympic Games in London were kissing in the stands while seated in front of them , David Beckham was photographed. On September 24, 2016, the golden couple of British track cycling married and Laura Trott took her husband's name. A son was born in August 2017.

In November 2016, the couple published their joint autobiography The Inside Track .

successes

train

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019

Street

2014
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Road Race

Teams

literature

Web links

Commons : Laura Kenny  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. By Press Association: Laura Trott takes omnium gold to claim record 10th European title. In: dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2015, accessed October 26, 2015 .
  2. Laura Kenny back in action at Track World Championships. In: Cycling News. February 7, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018 .
  3. NY13 - London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. December 29, 2012, accessed November 12, 2015 .
  4. Cheshunt's Grundy Park Leisure Center renamed after Laura Trott ahead of Women's Tour stage four ( Memento from January 29, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. Paul Christian: Laura Trott is sure hot as she's voted into FHM's top 100 sexiest women in the world. In: whtimes.co.uk. May 7, 2013, accessed November 12, 2015 .
  6. 'Tremendous ambassador' Kenny wins Sportswoman of the Year Award. In: britishcycling.org.uk. Retrieved December 9, 2016 .
  7. Laura Kenny of “Harper's Bazaar” honored as “Woman of the Year” 2016. In: rad-net.de. November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  8. ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N9
  9. Kenny and Atherton nominated for Laureus World Sports Award. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed January 16, 2017 .
  10. Simon MacMichael: GB track riders "treated like kids," says Jason Kenny. In: road.cc. March 1, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 .
  11. Olympics Day 12 - Beach Volleyball. August 7, 2012, accessed September 25, 2016 .
  12. Press Association: Olympic cyclists Jason Kenny and Laura Trott marry. In: theguardian.com. September 25, 2016, accessed September 25, 2016 .
  13. ^ Five golds for Great Britain in Glasgow. In: dailymail.co.uk. November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  14. Laura and Jason Kenny announce birth of first child with family picture on Instagram. In: telegraph.co.uk. August 25, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2017 .
  15. Revealed: First glimpse of new Jason and Laura Kenny autobiography. In: theboltonnews.co.uk. October 28, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .