Dani King

Danielle King
MBE

King during the Glasgow event of the 2012–2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics season.
Personal information
Full name Danielle King
Nickname Dani
Born (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990
Hamble, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current team Cylance Pro Cycling
Discipline Track and road
Role Rider
Rider type Endurance
Amateur team(s)
2010–2012 Horizon Fitness
Professional team(s)
2009 Vision 1 Racing[1]
2013–2016 Wiggle–Honda
2017– Cylance Pro Cycling

Danielle 'Dani' King MBE (born 21 November 1990) is an English track cyclist.

King is three times a world champion and Olympic Gold Medalist in the women's team pursuit. Competing for the winning Great Britain team at the 2011 World Championships [2] alongside Laura Trott and Wendy Houvenaghel, 2012 alongside Trott and Joanna Rowsell, and 2013 with Trott and Elinor Barker.

She won the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in London in preparation for the Olympics in February 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, King won a gold medal for the team pursuit alongside Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell.[3] The team also set a new world record time of 3:14:051 in this event.[4]

In November 2014, King was involved a serious crash after hitting a pothole while training on roads near Merthyr Tydfil. She suffered a snapped rib cage and a collapsed lung and spent 10 days in hospital.[5]

King was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[6][7]

She was given the Freedom of the Borough of Eastleigh in 2013.[8]

In September 2016, King signed for Cylance Pro Cycling for the 2017 season.[9]

Personal life

King went to school at Hamble Community Sports College before attending Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Her father, Trevor King, is a former biathlete who competed in two Winter Olympics.[10] She has a younger sister. Whilst attending Hamble school the British cycling talent team visited in 2005 where they chose her to be on their training team. In 2009, she came down with glandular fever whilst training to become an elite cyclist, leading to worries about her career being over. She recovered, however, and was later chosen to compete at world champion level in late 2011 and after setting world record with her pursuit co athletes she was chosen for team GB.[11]

King is engaged to fellow cyclist Matthew Rowe.[12] They are to marry in 2017. The couple live in Cardiff, Wales.

Major results

2011
UCI Track World Championships
1st Team pursuit
3rd Scratch race
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
UEC European U23 Track Championships
1st Team Pursuit (with Katie Colclough and Laura Trott)
2nd Omnium
2012
1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2013
1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
1st Points Race, Revolution – Round 1, Manchester
1st Milk Race
2014
National Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
3rd Scratch race
Revolution
2nd Scratch Race – Round 4, Manchester
3rd Points Race – Round 4, Manchester
3rd Scratch Race – Round 3, Manchester
3rd Surf & Turf 2-Day Women's Stage Race[13]
2015
1st Overall Tour of the Reservoir
1st Stage 1
1st Round 5 - Bath, Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series[14]
2016
1st Red Hook Crit
3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
4th Overall Santos Women's Tour
4th National Road Race Championships
5th Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour (TTT)
7th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
9th Overall La Route de France
2017
9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for Women
10th Women's Tour de Yorkshire

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Gregor (2 January 2009). "Vision 1 Racing adds Dani King". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Gallagher, Brendan (24 March 2011). "UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2011: rising stars power women to team pursuit gold". London: The Telegraph.
  3. ↑ Bevan, Chris (4 August 2012). "BBC Sport – Olympics cycling: British women win team pursuit track gold". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Majendie, Matt (16 June 2015). "Dani King: 'It was just a freak accident but I thought I was going to die'". The Independent. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.
  7. ↑ http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/NY2013-honours-London-2012.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/the-council/mayor-of-eastleigh/freedom-of-the-borough.aspx
  9. ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dani-king-signs-for-cylance-pro-cycling/
  10. ↑ Beard, Matthew (30 July 2013). "Success stopped me being seen as a weirdo, says star Dani King". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  11. ↑ "biography".
  12. ↑ Churchward, Sally (26 February 2013). "Hampshire Olympic cyclist Dani King talks about life after winning gold". Southern Daily Echo. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  13. ↑ "Surf & Turf 2-Day Women's Stage Race". British Cycling. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  14. ↑ Wynn, Nigel; Jones, Andy (12 June 2015). "Madison Genesis wins 2015 Tour Series after Bath finale (photos)". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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