Revised: August 2021
- DOB
- 24/04/1992
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- Cheshunt
- Based
- Manchester
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Biography
Kenny has become one of the world’s great track riders since her precocious talent first shone through in the 2010 season with an omnium gold medal at the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Montichiari, Italy.
That form earned Kenny selection to the UEC European Track Championships and her first elite gold medal in the team pursuit, aged only 18, before an astonishing 2011 season which saw Kenny win seven world, World Cup and European titles at junior and elite levels.
Highlights included team pursuit gold at her debut UCI Track Cycling World Championships and at the UEC European Track Championships, where Kenny also took the omnium title.
Momentum was building nicely for Kenny, and the whole of the Great Britain Cycling Team, as their home Olympics loomed at the start of 2012.
In London, at a UCI Track Cycling World Cup meeting, Kenny, Joanna Rowsell Shand and Dani King gave supporters a preview of the success to come by winning an exciting team pursuit final while Kenny was forced to settle for bronze in the omnium behind rivals Sarah Hammer of the USA and Australia’s Annette Edmondson.
A month later, the British team pursuit women were even more impressive at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne as they won gold in a new world record against the hosts. Just as significantly, in the omnium, Kenny turned the tables on Hammer and Edmondson and added gold.
London calling
By the time the London Olympics started, expectations were high for Kenny and the Great Britain Cycling Team and they did not disappoint.
In the team pursuit, the tried and trusted trio of Kenny, Rowsell Shand and King rode three times and broke the world record on each occasion, beating the USA in the final. That performance meant that on the six occasions that trio had raced together, they had set a world record on every ride.
Two days after the team pursuit gold, Trott was back for a thrilling omnium battle with Hammer and Edmondson. An uncharacteristically poor points race left Kenny with a mountain to climb but, by the final event the 500-metre time trial, her storming victory meant the Briton had won the gold medal by one point from Hammer.
The success, since that unforgettable summer, has been largely relentless for Kenny. The 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, Belarus saw Great Britain retain their team pursuit world crown.
With the women’s team pursuit now a four-rider, four-kilometre event, the British won the title at that year’s UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn with Kenny doing likewise in the omnium.
As the Great Britain team dominated the new team pursuit format, there was also another gold - and another new world record - at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Manchester and the 2014 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Cali saw that mastery continue with more rainbow jerseys.
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Selected Career Highlights to Date
Results
2020
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Berlin (Germany)
Silver, team pursuit
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Gold, team pursuit
Silver, omnium
Bronze, Madison
2019
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Pruszkow (Poland)
Silver, team pursuit
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
Gold, team pursuit
Silver, Madison
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Minsk (Belarus)
Silver, Madison
Bronze, omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Milton (Canada)
Gold, Madison
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
Silver, omnium
2018
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
Silver, Team pursuit
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Glasgow (UK)
Gold, team pursuit
Gold, elimination race
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Milton (Canada)
Gold, team pursuit
Gold, omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow (UK)
Gold, team pursuit
Gold, Madison
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London (UK)
Gold, team pursuit
Gold, Madison
2016
Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, London
Gold, Omnium
Gold, Scratch race
Bronze, Team pursuit
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Hong Kong
Gold, Omnium
Silver, Scratch race
2015
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Cali (Colombia)
Gold, Omnium
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Grenchen (Switzerland)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
Gold, Scratch race
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Paris (France)
Silver, Team pursuit
Silver, Omnium
2014
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Gold, Team pursuit
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London (UK)
Gold, Team pursuit
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Guadaloupe
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
Commonwealth Games, Glasgow (UK)
Gold, Scratch race
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Cali (Colombia)
Gold, Team pursuit
Silver, Omnium
British National Road Race Championships, Abergavenny (UK)
1st
2013
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Silver, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Manchester (UK)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Apeldoorn (Holland)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Minsk (Belarus)
Gold, Team pursuit
Silver, Omnium
2012
Olympic Games, London (UK)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Melbourne (Australia)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London (UK)
Gold, Team pursuit
Bronze, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow (UK)
Gold, team pursuit
Gold, omnium
2011
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Cali (Colombia)
Gold, Team pursuit
Bronze, Omnium
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Apeldoorn (Holland)
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Omnium
UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Apeldoorn (Holland)
Gold, Team pursuit
UEC Junior and Under-23 Track European Championships, Portugal
Gold, Team pursuit
Gold, Individual pursuit
Gold, Scratch race
2010
UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships, Italy
Gold, Omnium
Silver, Points race
Silver, Individual pursuit
UEC European Track Cycling Championships, Poland
Gold, Team pursuit
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Cali (Colombia)
Bronze, team pursuit
