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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.[2]

Dani Rowe
MBE

Rowe at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships.
Personal information
Full name	Danielle Rowe
Nickname	Dani
Born	Danielle King (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990 (age 31) Hamble, Hampshire, England
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Disciplines	Track Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Endurance
Amateur team
2010–2012	Horizon Fitness
Professional teams
2009	Vision1 Racing[1]
2013–2016	Wiggle–Honda
2017	Cylance Pro Cycling
2018	WaowDeals Pro Cycling
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2012 London Team pursuit World Championships 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit 2013 Minsk Team pursuit 2011 Apeldoorn Scratch race European Championships 2011 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2013 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2013 Apeldoorn Points race Women's road bicycle racing Representing  Wales Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Road race

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,[3] (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.[4] The team also set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.[5]

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.[6]

Rowe was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[7][8]

She was given the Freedom of the Borough of Eastleigh in 2013,[9] where a cycle route in Hamble is also named after her.[10]

In September 2016, Rowe signed for Cylance Pro Cycling for the 2017 season.[11] After one year, in October 2017 she announced that she would join WaowDeals Pro Cycling for 2018.[12]

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.[13] 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.[14]

Rowe is married to fellow cyclist Matthew Rowe.[15] 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.[16]

Major results

Track

Road

See also

• 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes

References

External links

• Danielle Rowe at UCI
• Danielle Rowe at ProCyclingStats
• Danielle Rowe (King) at CQ Ranking
• Danielle Rowe (King) at CycleBase
• Danielle King-Rowe at Cycling Archives
• Danielle King at the Commonwealth Games Federation
• Dani King at Team GB
• Dani King at Olympics.com
• Dani King at Olympedia

На других языках

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[de] Danielle Rowe

Danielle „Dani“ Rowe, geborene King, MBE (* 21. November 1990 in Southampton) ist eine ehemalige britische Radrennfahrerin und Olympiasiegerin.

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- [en] Dani Rowe

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[es] Danielle King

Danielle King[1] –conocida como Dani King– (Southampton, 21 de noviembre de 1990) es una deportista británica que compitió en ciclismo en las modalidades de pista, especialista en la prueba de persecución por equipos, y ruta.

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[it] Danielle Rowe

Danielle Rowe, nata King, MBE (Southampton, 21 novembre 1990), è un'ex pistard e ciclista su strada britannica, attiva tra le Elite dal 2009 al 2018. Su pista è stata campionessa olimpica dell'inseguimento a squadre ai Giochi di Londra 2012 e tre volte campionessa del mondo nella medesima specialità[1].

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