Laura Trott

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Laura Trott
File:2015 UEC Track Elite European Championships 118.JPG
Personal information
Nickname Trotty[1]
Born (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992 (age 32)
Harlow, Essex, England[2]
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[3]
Weight 52 kg (115 lb; 8.2 st)[3]
Team information
Current team Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Discipline Track and road
Rider type Sprinter (road) / Endurance (track)
Professional team(s)
2012 Team Ibis Cycles
2013–2014 Wiggle–Honda
2015– Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling

Laura Trott, OBE (born 24 April 1992) is an English track and road cyclist who specialises in the team pursuit, omnium and scratch race disciplines. She is the inaugural Olympic champion in both events.

Representing Great Britain, Trott is the reigning Olympic and European champion in both events and reigning world champion in the omnium, as well as four-times a world champion in the team pursuit, and the reigning world and European champion in the scratch race. She is the most successful rider, male or female, in the history of the European Track Championships, with ten titles as of October 2015. Her 2015 European Scratch race was her 20th senior international gold medal.

A rider for the Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling team on the road, in 2014 Trott won the British championship in the road race, winning the senior and under-23 titles simultaneously.

Early life

Trott was born a month prematurely in Harlow in Essex with a collapsed lung and was later diagnosed with asthma. She was recommended by doctors to take up sport in order to regulate her breathing. She enjoyed and competed in trampolining but had to give up due to respiratory problems.[4][5] She grew up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where she attended Turnford School.[2][6] Her older sister Emma Trott is a former road racing cyclist.[7]

Laura Trott first began cycling when her mother decided to take up the sport to lose weight. Trott and her sister joined their mother which was when Trott first became serious about the sport.[8]

Career

Trott is a four time World and European champion in the team pursuit. She is also the European champion and previous world champion in the omnium discipline, having won the Omnium at the 2013 European Track Championships. She joined Team Ibis Cycles for the 2012 road season.[9]

In February 2012, she won the team pursuit at the 2011–2012 Track World Cup in London. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Trott won a gold medal in the team pursuit alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell.[10] The team also set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.[11] Including pre-Olympics races and the Olympics final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race.[10] She also won gold in the omnium making her a double Olympic Champion in her first Olympics, two days after winning gold in the team pursuit.[12][13][14]

After two seasons with Wiggle-Honda, it was announced in September 2014 that Trott would be joining the Matrix Fitness Vulpine team for 2015 as lead rider.[15]

Honours and awards

Trott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[16][17]

In 2014, the former Grundy Park Leisure Centre in Cheshunt was renamed The Laura Trott Leisure Centre in her honour following a £4 million redevelopment. Trott attended the launch ahead of competing in stage four of the first Women's Tour from Cheshunt to Welwyn Garden City.[18]

Honours

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2008
British National Track Championships, Junior
3rd Sprint,
2009
British National Track Championships, Junior
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
2nd 500m TT
2nd British National Circuit Race Championships
3rd British National Madison Championships (with Hannah Mayho)
2010
2010 European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit,
British National Track Championships,
3rd Individual pursuit,
British National Track Championships, Junior
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG 500m TT
2nd Points race
2nd Scratch race
1st British National Derny Championships
2011
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team Pursuit,
2011 European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
Track Cycling World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Cali
3rd Omnium, Cali
2011 European Track Championships, U23
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Individual pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Scratch race
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
British National Track Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
2nd Scratch race
3rd 500m TT
British National Road Race Championships, U23
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG
2012
2012 Summer Olympics
1st Gold medal.svg Omnium
1st Gold medal.svg Team pursuit
Track Cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
Track Cycling World Cup
1st Team pursuit, London
1st Omnium, Glasgow
1st Team pursuit, Glasgow
3rd Omnium, London
1st Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Ranking
2013
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
2013 European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team Pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
Track Cycling World Cup
1st Team Pursuit, Round 1, Manchester
1st Omnium, Round 1, Manchester
2nd Omnium, Round 2, Mexico, Aguascalientes
2013 British National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team Pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points Race
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison
2nd Scratch Race
British National Road Race Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Under 23
2nd Senior[19]
1st RideLondon GrandPrix
2014
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
2014 Commonwealth Games
Gold medal blank.svg Points Race
2014 European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team Pursuit[20]
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
Track Cycling World Cup
1st Team Pursuit, Round 1, Guadalajara[21]
1st Team Pursuit, Round 2, London[22]
1st Omnium, Round 2, London[23]
British National Road Race Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Senior
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Under 23[24]
British National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit[25]
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Scratch race[26]
2nd Individual pursuit[27]
3rd Points race[28]
1st Omnium, Fenioux Piste International[29]
1st Surf & Turf 2-Day Women's Stage Race
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3[30]
2015
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
2nd Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Scratch race
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium
3rd British National Road Race Championships
British National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual Pursuit[31]
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Scratch race[32]
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race[33]
1st Milk Race[34]
2016
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Scratch race
3rd Team pursuit

See also

References

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