Rebecca Romero

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Medal record
Rebecca Romero
Competitor for Great Britain
Rowing
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	Quadruple sculls
World Championships
Gold	2005	Quadruple Sculls
Track cycling
World Championships
Silver	2007 Palma de Mallorca	3 km Pursuit
Gold	2008 Manchester	3 km Pursuit
Gold	2008 Manchester	Team Pursuit

Rebecca Romero (born 24 January 1980, Twickenham, Greater London)^[1] is an English track cyclist and former rower, currently world champion in both the individual and team pursuit. She has won world championships in both sports; as a rower, she won a silver medal at the Athens 2004 Olympics in the quadruple sculls, and the following year was part of the British crew that won the 2005 World Championships in the quad sculls. Romero was born of an English mother and Spanish father.

Suffering from a persistent back injury, Romero retired from rowing in 2006^[2]. In its place, she took up track cycling. She made rapid progress in her new sport, specialising in track endurance events. In December 2006, she won a silver medal in the pursuit at the UCI Track World Cup event in Moscow - her international cycling debut - losing out to fellow Briton Wendy Houvenaghel.

She won her Cycling World Championships medal in March 2007 with silver in the 3km pursuit ^[3]. The following year, at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, she won the individual, and (with Houvenaghel and Joanna Rowsell) team, pursuit events.

1 Achievements
- 1.1 Rowing
- 1.2 Cycling
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Rowing

Olympic Games: 2004 – Silver, Quadruple Sculls (with Frances Houghton, Debbie Flood, Alison Mowbray)
World Championships: 2005 – Gold, Quadruple Sculls (with Katherine Grainger, Frances Houghton, Sarah Winkless); 2003 – 4th, Double Sculls; 2002 – 5th, Quadruple Sculls; 2001 – 5th, Quadruple Sculls
U23 World Championships: 2000 – Gold, 2-; 1999 – 4th, 1x