Laura Kenny

Dame Laura Kenny
DBE

Kenny at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships
Personal information
Full name	Laura Rebecca Kenny
Born	Laura Rebecca Trott (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992 (age 32) Harlow, Essex, England[1]
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[2]
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)[2]
Team information
Disciplines	Track Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter (road) Endurance (track)
Professional teams
2012	Team Ibis Cycles
2013–2014	Wiggle–Honda
2015–2018	Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
2022	Team 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 2012 London Omnium 2012 London Team pursuit 2016 Rio de Janeiro Omnium 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit 2020 Tokyo Madison 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2012 Melbourne Omnium 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit 2013 Minsk Team pursuit 2014 Cali Team pursuit 2016 London Scratch 2016 London Omnium 2013 Minsk Omnium 2014 Cali Omnium 2015 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Omnium 2015 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2019 Pruszków Team pursuit 2020 Berlin Team pursuit 2016 London Team pursuit European Championships 2010 Pruszków Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2013 Apeldoorn Omnium 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2014 Guadeloupe Omnium 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit 2015 Grenchen Scratch race 2015 Grenchen Omnium 2015 Grenchen Team pursuit 2018 Glasgow Elimination race 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit 2019 Apeldoorn Omnium 2019 Apeldoorn Madison 2020 Plovdiv Omnium 2020 Plovdiv Madison Junior World Championships 2010 Montichiari Omnium U23 & Junior European Championships 2011 Anadia U23 Scratch race 2011 Anadia U23 Individual pursuit 2011 Anadia U23 Team pursuit 2013 Anadia U23 Individual pursuit 2013 Anadia U23 Points race 2013 Anadia U23 Omnium Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Points race 2022 Birmingham Scratch race 2022 Birmingham Team pursuit

Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny,^[3] (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]