Laura Kenny

Laura Kenny, born Laura Trott on 24 April 1992 in Harlow, Essex, is an English former track and road cyclist who specialised in the endurance events of the track: the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race and madison. She won six Olympic medals, five of them gold, which is the most of any British woman at the Games and the most of any female cyclist. She took team pursuit and omnium gold at London in 2012, defended both titles at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and won the madison at the delayed Tokyo Games, where she also took silver in the team pursuit. Her other titles include seven world championships, fourteen European championships and two Commonwealth Games titles, and her best road result was the 2014 British National Road Race Championships. She married the cyclist Jason Kenny in 2016, was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 and retired in 2024, four months before the Paris Olympics.