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Dani Rowe
MBE
Rowe at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships.
Personal information
Full name Danielle Rowe
Nickname Dani
Born (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990 (age 33)
Hamble, Hampshire, England
Height 1.75 m
Weight 62 kg
Team information
Current team Retired
Role Rider
Rider type Endurance

Danielle 'Dani' Rowe MBE (née King; born 21 November 1990) is a British former road and track cyclist. She retired from cycling in December 2018.

A team pursuit gold medallist from the London Olympics in 2012, Rowe also won three consecutive world titles in the women's team pursuit, winning in 2011, (with Laura Trott and Wendy Houvenaghel), 2012 (with Trott and Joanna Rowsell), and 2013 (with Trott and Elinor Barker).

Career

She won the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in London in preparation for the Olympics in February 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Rowe won a gold medal for the team pursuit alongside Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell. The team also set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.

In November 2014, Rowe was involved a serious crash after hitting a pothole while training on roads near Merthyr Tydfil. She suffered a snapped rib cage and a collapsed lung and spent 10 days in hospital.

Rowe was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.

She was given the Freedom of the Borough of Eastleigh in 2013, where a cycle route in Hamble is also named after her.

In September 2016, Rowe signed for Cylance Pro Cycling for the 2017 season. After one year, in October 2017 she announced that she would join WaowDeals Pro Cycling for 2018.

Personal life

Rowe went to school at Hamble Community Sports College before attending Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Her father, Trevor King, is a former biathlete who competed in two Winter Olympics. She has a younger sister. Initially a keen competitive swimmer for her school and triathlete, with Chapel Tri-Stars junior triathlon club, in 2005 she was tested by the British Cycling at her School and was then selected to join the Talent Team, which was at that time part of British Cycling's Rider Route. Later that year she joined i-Team.cc cycling club where she trained and raced regularly at The Mountbatten Centre Velodrome in Portsmouth. In 2009, she came down with glandular fever whilst training to become an elite cyclist, leading to worries about her career being over. She recovered, however, and was later chosen to compete at world champion level in late 2011 and after setting world record with her pursuit team-mates she was chosen for Team GB.

Rowe is married to fellow cyclist Matthew Rowe. They married on Saturday 30 September 2017 at Llandaff Cathedral and their reception overlooked the Severn Estuary at a country house in Chepstow. The couple live in Cardiff, Wales. In 2020, Rowe gave birth to a son.

Major results

Track

2006
National Youth Track Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
3rd Scratch
2008
2nd Scratch, National Junior Track Championships
2009
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Derny
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Alex Greenfield)
3rd Individual pursuit
3rd Points race
3rd Scratch
2010
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
2nd Derny
2nd Madison
2nd Points race
3rd Scratch
2011
UCI Track World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Scratch
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit (with Katie Colclough and Laura Trott)
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Omnium
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
3rd Scratch
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Omnium, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Astana
2012
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow
2013
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
Team pursuit, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
1st Gold medal blank.svg Manchester
1st Gold medal blank.svg Aguascalientes
UEC European Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Team pursuit
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Points race
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Laura Trott)
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
3rd Scratch
1st Points race, Revolution – Round 1, Manchester
2014
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team pursuit
3rd Scratch
Revolution
2nd Scratch – Round 4, Manchester
3rd Points race – Round 4, Manchester
3rd Scratch – Round 3, Manchester
2017
3rd Points race, Revolution Series – Champions League

Road

2009
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Criterium, National Road Championships
2011
2nd Criterium, National Road Championships
2013
1st Milk Race
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
2014
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Surf & Turf 2-Day Women's Stage Race
2015
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of the Reservoir
1st Stage 1
1st Bath, Matrix Fitness Grand Prix Series
10th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
2016
1st Red Hook Crit
3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
4th Road race, National Road Championships
4th Overall Women's Tour Down Under
1st Mountains classification
5th Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
7th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
9th Overall La Route de France
2017
9th Overall The Women's Tour
9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
9th GP de Plouay – Bretagne
10th Women's Tour de Yorkshire
2018
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Women's Tour de Yorkshire
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Road race, Commonwealth Games
3rd Overall The Women's Tour
1st Jersey light blue.svg British rider classification
10th Road race, UEC European Road Championships

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Danielle King para niños

  • 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes
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