Laura Kenny

Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny, (née Trott; born 24 April 1992) is an English former professional track and road cyclist who specialised in track endurance events. These included the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, and madison disciplines. She won six Olympic medals during her career—five golds and one silver. Her five Olympic gold medals are an all-time record for a British female Olympian, and her overall tally of six medals is a joint-record alongside Charlotte Dujardin.

Kenny became a European champion for the first time in 2010, and world champion for the first time in 2011. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won gold medals in both the team pursuit and the omnium. Kenny won further world titles in 2013, 2014 and 2016 before successfully defending her Olympic titles in both the team pursuit and the omnium at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Kenny became a mother in 2017, but returned in 2018, securing two gold medals in the European Championships later that year. Further European titles followed and she won her fifth Olympic gold (an all-time record for a female cyclist) in the madison event at the delayed 2020 games in Tokyo, as well as securing a silver in the team pursuit. Kenny gave birth again in 2023, and she retired from cycling four months prior to the 2024 Summer Olympics.

During her track cycling career, she won five Olympic, seven World Championship, fourteen European Championship and two Commonwealth Games titles. Kenny predominantly focused on track cycling during her career. Her best result in road racing was victory in the British National Road Race Championships in 2014. In 2016, she married fellow cyclist Jason Kenny, and between them, they have won fifteen Olympic medals, including twelve golds, a record for married Olympic gold medallists. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours and is a member of the British Cycling Hall of Fame.