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Laura Trott
	Trott at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships
Personal information
Nickname	Trotty
Born	24 April 1992 (age 32); Harlow, Essex, England
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb; 8.2 st)
Team information
Current team	Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Discipline	Track and road
Rider type	Sprinter (road) / Endurance (track)
Professional teams
2012	Team Ibis Cycles
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2015–	Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
Medal record
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
European Championships (under-23)

Laura Trott, OBE (born 24 April 1992) is an English track and road cyclist who specialises in the team pursuit and omnium disciplines. She is the inaugural Olympic champion in both events.

Representing Great Britain, Trott is the reigning Olympic and European champion in both events, as well as four-times a world champion in the team pursuit, and a former world champion in the omnium. She is the most successful rider, male or female, in the history of the European Track Championships, with ten titles as of October 2015. Her 2015 European Scratch race was her 20th senior international gold medal.

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Early life

Trott was born a month prematurely in Harlow in Essex with a collapsed lung and was later diagnosed with asthma. She was recommended by doctors to take up sport in order to regulate her breathing. She enjoyed and competed in trampolining but had to give up due to respiratory problems.^[4]^[5] She grew up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where she attended Turnford School.^[2]^[6] Her older sister Emma Trott is a former road racing cyclist.^[7]

Laura Trott first began cycling when her mother decided to take up the sport to lose weight. Trott and her sister joined their mother which was when Trott first became serious about the sport.^[8]

Career

Trott is a four time World and European champion in the team pursuit. She is also the European champion and previous world champion in the omnium discipline, having won the Omnium at the 2013 European Track Championships. She joined Team Ibis Cycles for the 2012 road season.^[9]

In February 2012, she won the team pursuit at the 2011–2012 Track World Cup in London. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Trott won a gold medal in the team pursuit alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell.^[10] The team also set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.^[11] Including pre-Olympics races and the Olympics final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race.^[10] She also won gold in the omnium making her a double Olympic Champion in her first Olympics, two days after winning gold in the team pursuit.^[12]^[13]^[14]

After two seasons with Wiggle-Honda, it was announced in September 2014 that Trott would be joining the Matrix Fitness Vulpine team for 2015 as lead rider.^[15]

Honours and awards

Trott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.^[16]^[17]

In 2014, the former Grundy Park Leisure Centre in Cheshunt was renamed The Laura Trott Leisure Centre in her honour following a £4 million redevelopment. Trott attended the launch ahead of competing in stage four of the first Women's Tour from Cheshunt to Welwyn Garden City.^[18]