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England

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Sport

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Laura Rebecca Trott is a British track and road cyclist who specializes in the Team Pursuit, Omnium, Scratch Race, and Madison disciplines. She is the most successful female track cyclist in Olympic history, having won four gold medals and one silver medal. She is also Great Britain's second most successful female Olympic competitor in any sport.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Laura Trott was born on 24 April 1992 in Harlow in Essex, UK. She grew up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where she attended the Turnford School. Having been born a month premature with a collapsed lung, Trott always suffered from respiratory difficulties. She was later diagnosed with asthma as a child, and medical specialists advised her to participate in sports in order to help regulate her breathing. She took up trampolining for a time but was forced to give up because of her health problems. When her mother took up cycling as part of a weight loss program, Trott began cycling with her. She started to race at the age of eight.

EARLY CAREER

Trott enjoyed an astonishingly quick start to her professional career and her ascent to the British Olympic team was rapid. She won two junior titles at both the 2009 and 2010 British National Track Championships, quickly followed by a gold medal at the 2010 European Track Championships, when she was just 18 years old. She went on to take her first world title at the 2011 World Championships, before securing her place on the Great Britain team for her Olympic debut in 2012, immediately securing two gold medals.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Since first appearing at the European Track Championships in 2010, Trott has won a total of 29 medals, including seven World Championship titles, a record 14 European Championship titles, and one Commonwealth Games title in addition to her five Olympic medals. Trott now races for the professional cycling team, Matrix Pro Cycling.

RECOGNITION

Trott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2013 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for contributions to the sport of cycling. In 2013, she received an Honorary Degree from the University of Essex. In 2014, the former Grundy Park Leisure Centre in Cheshunt was renamed The Laura Trott Leisure Centre in her honor following a £4 million redevelopment.

ADDITIONAL FACTS

• At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Trott won a gold medal in the team pursuit with Dani King and Joanna Rowsell, with a world record time of 3:14.051. Including pre-Olympics races and the Olympics final itself, in the six times the team rode together, they broke the world record in every race.
• Trott married fellow Olympic track cyclist Jason Kenny in September 2016, and the couple announced the birth of their first child in August 2017. Jason has won eight Olympic medals.
• In the 2019-2020 track season, Trott broke her shoulder at a World Cup meet in Canada.