Joanna Rowsell
Joanna Katie Rowsell Shand MBE (born 5 December 1988[3]) 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 four editions of the World Championships (2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014), the gold medal in the same discipline at the 2012 London Olympics and the individual pursuit at the 2014 World Championship.
She is a reigning Olympic and European champion in the team pursuit, and reigning Commonwealth Games champion in the individual pursuit.
Rowsell first came to national prominence as a winner of junior national competitions in 2005/2006.
Early life
Rowsell was born in Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton. She competed for Sutton in the London Youth Games.
She attended Cuddington Croft Primary School from 1993 to 2000 and Nonsuch High School for Girls from 2000 to 2007.
Career
Rowsell was picked up by British Cycling's Talent Team programme in 2004, after being tested at her school.[4] 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.[5] In 2006 she also finished third in the British National Championship and subsequently signed for the professional team Global Racing for the 2007 season. In her first year as a professional, she finished third in the 3 km pursuit and the points race at the National Track Championships. On the road, she finished second in the British National Circuit Race Championships.
2008 saw Rowsell join the new Nicole Cooke-led Team Halfords Bikehut.[6] She also continued to compete on the track, winning a gold medal at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester as part of the women's pursuit team.[7]
In 2012, she won in preparation for the Olympics at the Track Cycling World Cup in London both the team pursuit and the individual pursuit in February. 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.[8] 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.[9]
In 2013, Rowsell broke her collarbone at the London cycling festival but, five weeks later, after an operation and training on the Wattbike with pillow on the bars, she was winning the Women's Pursuit on the track at the International Belgian Open in Ghent.[10]
In September 2014 Rowsell announced that she would be leaving the Wiggle-Honda team and joining the Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International squad on a two-year deal from 2015.[11]
Personal life
Rowsell has alopecia areata, a condition resulting in hair loss.[12][13][14][15]
Rowsell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[16]
Rowsell's younger brother Erick Rowsell is a road racing cyclist.[17]
Palmarès
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- 2005
- 1st 3km Pursuit Junior British National Track Championships
- 2006
- 1st 3km Pursuit Junior British National Track Championships
- 1st British National Women's Road Race Series
- 3rd British National Road Race Championship
- 2007
- 2nd British National Circuit Race Championships
- 3rd 3km Pursuit British National Track Championships
- 3rd 25km Points Race British National Track Championships
- 2008 – Team Halfords Bikehut 2008 season
- 3rd British National Road Race Championships
- 1st U23 British National Road Race Championships
- 1st British National Circuit Race Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Manchester
- 3rd Individual Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Manchester
- 1st Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Melbourne
- 1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Melbourne
- 1st Team Pursuit, 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 2009
- 1st Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Copenhagen
- 3rd Individual Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Copenhagen
- 1st Team pursuit, 2009–2010 Track World Cup, Manchester
- 2nd Team pursuit, 2009–2010 Track World Cup, Melbourne
- 1st Team Pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 2011
- 1st World Cup, Track, Team pursuit, Manchester
- 1st Individual Pursuit, British National Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit, British National Track Championships
- 3rd Points Race, British National Track Championships
- 2011 UEC European Track Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit
- 1st
- 2012
- 1st Team Pursuit, 2011–2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
- 1st Individual Pursuit, 2011–2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
- 1st Team Pursuit 2012 Summer Olympics, London
- 1st Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
- 1st Individual Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
- 1st Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- London Youth Games Hall of Fame Class of 2012
- 2013
- 1st Woman Addiscombe CC Open 25 mile TT (9th on scratch)
- 1st
British National Time Trial Championships - 2013 UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit
- 1st
- 2014
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2014 Commonwealth Games
Individual Pursuit
- 2014 UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit[18]
- 1st
- British National Track Championships
- 2015
- 1st Team pursuit 2015 UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Team pursuit, British National Track Championships (with Katie Archibald, Sarah Storey & Ciara Horne)[21]
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Reservoir[22]
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 2nd Team pursuit
See also
References
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- Living people
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- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Sutton, London
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- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- English female cyclists
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
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- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
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