Laura Trott

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Laura Trott

Trott in 2012
Personal information
Full name Laura Trott
Nickname Trotty[1]
Born (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992
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 Wiggle-Honda
Discipline Track and road
Rider type Sprinter
Professional team(s)
2012
2013–		 Team Ibis Cycles
Wiggle-Honda
Infobox last updated on
20 October 2013

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

Representing Great Britain, Trott is the reigning Olympic and European champion in both events, as well as World Champion in the team pursuit, and a former World Champion in the omnium. She is the most successful rider, male or female, in the history of the elite European Track Championships, with five titles.

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.[4][5] She grew up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where she attended Turnford School.[2][6] Her older sister Emma Trott is a 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 double world and three time European champion in the team pursuit, having won in 2011[9] and again in 2012. Trott is also an individual world and European champion, in the Omnium discipline, having won the omnium at the 2012 World Championships.[10] She joined Team Ibis Cycles for the 2012 road season.[11]

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.[12] The team also set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.[13] 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.[12] She also won gold in the omnium making her a double Olympic Champion in her first Olympics, 2 days after winning gold in the team pursuit.[14][15][16] She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[17][18]

Palmarès

2008
British National Track Championships, Junior
3rd Sprint,
2009
British National Track Championships, Junior
1st Individual pursuit
1st 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 Team pursuit,
British National Track Championships,
3rd Individual pursuit,
British National Track Championships, Junior
1st Individual pursuit
1st 500m TT
2nd Points race
2nd Scratch race
1st British National Derny Championships
2011
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
1st Team Pursuit,
2011 European Track Championships
1st Omnium
1st Team pursuit
Track Cycling World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Cali
3rd Omnium, Cali
2011 European Track Championships, U23
1st Individual pursuit
1st Scratch race
1st 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
2012
2012 Summer Olympics
1st Omnium
1st Team pursuit
Track Cycling World Championships
1st Omnium
1st 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 Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
2013 European Track Championships
1st Team Pursuit
1st 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 Team Pursuit
1st Points Race
1st Individual pursuit
1st Madison
2nd Scratch Race
1st RideLondon GrandPrix

See also

References

  1. ↑ Fordyce, Tom (18 February 2013). "Laura Trott: Gold medallist starts countdown to Rio". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 McRae, Donald (6 February 2012). "Laura Trott sick to the stomach in pursuit of London 2012 glory". The Guardian. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Athlete: Laura Trott". london2012.com. Retrieved 5 August 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Laura Trott = About Me". 
  5. ↑ Marsden, Sam (7 August 2012). "Laura Trott battled back from collapsed lung to Olympic gold". The Daily Telegraph. 
  6. ↑ Gold, Alasdair (4 August 2012). "18:17 Saturday 04 August 2012 Written by Alasdair Gold Trott is an Olympic champion". Hertfordshire Mercury. 
  7. ↑ Hemmings, Mark (21 October 2010). "Trott sisters look back on Commonwealth Games experience". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 25 December 2011. 
  8. ↑ Kay, Vernon (14 August 2012). "interview on bbc radio". BBC radio 1. Retrieved 14 August 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Laura Trott Rider Profile". Cycling Weekly. 
  10. ↑ "Track Worlds: Laura Trott wins omnium as Kenny beats Hoy". BBC. 
  11. ↑ "2012 UCI Women's Teams:TEAM IBIS CYCLES (DPD) – GBR". UCI. 13 April 2012. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Olympics cycling: British women win team pursuit track gold". BBC. 4 August 2012. 
  13. ↑ Morton, Douglas (4 August 2012). "Team GB win gold medal in women's team pursuit with world record time – Cycling – Olympics". The Independent. Retrieved 9 August 2012. 
  14. ↑ Slater, Matt (4 August 2012). "BBC Sport – Olympics cycling: Laura Trott wins omnium gold medal". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2012. 
  15. ↑ Ivan Speck (8 July 2012). "London 2012 Olympics: Laura Trott wins cycling gold in the omnium | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2012. 
  16. ↑ "Laura Trott wins omnium gold for Team GB". Retrieved 7 August 2012. 
  17. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 24. 29 December 2012.
  18. ↑ "2013 New Year's Honoura". Retrieved 29 December 2012. 

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