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Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE (born 5 December 1988) is an English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competes on track and road.
Her greatest successes to date are the gold medals won in the women's team pursuit at the 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 World Championships and the London 2012 Olympics and the 2014 World Championship in the individual pursuit.
She is a reigning Olympic, World and European champion in the team event, and reigning world champion in the individual pursuit.
Rowsell first came to national prominence as a winner of junior national competitions in 2005/2006.
Rowsell was picked up by British C
Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE (born 5 December 1988) is an English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competes on track and road.
Her greatest successes to date are the gold medals won in the women's team pursuit at the 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 World Championships and the London 2012 Olympics and the 2014 World Championship in the individual pursuit.
She is a reigning Olympic, World and European champion in the team event, and reigning world champion in the individual pursuit.
Rowsell first came to national prominence as a winner of junior national competitions in 2005/2006.
Rowsell was picked up by British Cycling's Talent Team programme in 2004, after being tested at her school. Her first major wins came in 2005 and 2006. As a junior, she won the British National Track Championships pursuit in both these years, whilst in senior competition on the road she won the 2006 British National Women's Series competition. She represented the UK at the European and World Junior Track and Road Championships in these years.
She won a gold medal at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester as part of the women's pursuit team.
In 2012, she won both the team pursuit and the individual pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in London.
Rowsell was a member of the team pursuit squad alongside Dani King and Laura Trott, when they won the team pursuit event and set a new world record at the 2011–2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in London. They broke the record again at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Rowsell won a gold medal for the team pursuit alongside King and Trott. Having already set world record times in both the qualifying and semi-finals in this event, the team also went on to set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in the final.
In 2013, Rowsell broke her collarbone at the London Cycling Festival but, five weeks later, after an operation and training on the Wattbike with a pillow on the bars, she was winning the Women's Pursuit on the track at the International Belgian Open in Ghent.
Rowsell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.
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