Laura Kenny

Dame
Laura Kenny
DBE OLY
Personal information
Full nameLaura Rebecca Kenny
BornLaura Rebecca Trott
(1992-04-24) 24 April 1992 (age 32)
Harlow, Essex, England[1]
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[2]
Weight52 kg (115 lb)[2]
Team information
Disciplines
  • Track
  • Road
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Sprinter (road)
  • Endurance (track)
Professional teams
2012Team Ibis Cycles
2013–2014Wiggle–Honda
2015–2018Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
2022Team Breeze
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 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2015 Saint-Quentin-en-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 former British professional track and road cyclist who specialised in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines.[4]

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.[5]

After first appearing at the European Track Championships in 2010,[6] she won five Olympic, seven World Championship, 14 European Championship and two Commonwealth Games titles, for a total of 28 Senior gold medals. On the road, Kenny won the British National Road Race Championships in 2014, taking the under-23 title in the same race, but did not road compete again following the Paris event in 2015.[7]

  1. ^ "Laura Trott golden postbox painted in Harlow by mistake". BBC News. 5 August 2012. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Athlete: Laura Kenny". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Laura Kenny". British Cycling. Archived from the original on 13 July 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Olympic great Kenny announces retirement". BBC Sport. 18 March 2024. Archived from the original on 18 March 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2020madison was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Webber, Luke. "2011 European Track Championships preview". British Cycling. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Laura Kenny – Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile". British Cycling. Archived from the original on 22 December 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2024.