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Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE (born 5 December 1988) is a retired English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competed on track and
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. Her greatest successes were the gold medals won in the women's
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at the
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and the 2016 Rio Olympics as well as five World Championship titles, four in the
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) plus one in the individual pursuit at the 2014 World Championships. She currently holds the World Record in the 3 km team pursuit. Rowsell first came to national prominence as a winner of junior national competitions in 2005/2006.


Early life

Rowsell was born in
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in the
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. She attended Cuddington Croft Primary School from 1993 to 2000 and
Nonsuch High School Nonsuch High School is an all-girls' grammar school with an Academy (English school), academy status, located in Cheam, in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, on the border of the London Borough of Sutton, and standing in of gro ...
for Girls from 2000 to 2007. She competed for Sutton in the
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.


Career

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
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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. 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 senior, she finished third in the 3 km pursuit and the
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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. She also continued to compete on the track, winning her first World Title at the 2008 World Championships in
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as part of the women's pursuit team. In 2012, she won in preparation for the Olympics at the Track Cycling World Cup in London both the
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and the
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in February. Rowsell was a member of the
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squad alongside Dani King and Laura Trott, when they won the team pursuit event and set a new world record at the
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in
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. They broke the record again at the
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. At the
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in London, Rowsell won a gold medal for the
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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 a Wattbike with a pillow on the bars, she won the Women's Pursuit on the track at the International Belgian Open in
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. 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. In 2016, Rowsell won a gold medal in the Team Pursuit at the Rio Olympics. On 14 March 2017, Rowsell announced that she was retiring from the sport. "The decision to step away has been the hardest I've ever had to make," she said. "I believe I have more to offer the world."


Personal life

Rowsell has
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, a condition resulting in hair loss. She is a descendant of the Swiss inventor Jean Samuel Pauly. She was appointed
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(MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling. Her younger brother Erick Rowsell is a road racing cyclist. Rowsell married Daniel Shand in July 2015 and then competed as Joanna Rowsell Shand. The marriage ended in divorce in 2020. After retirement, she studied human biology at
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, before becoming a medical student at St. George's Hospital Medical School in 2020.


Major results

;2005 : 1st Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships ;2006 : 1st Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships : 1st National Women's Road Race Series : 3rd National Road Race Championships ;2007 : 2nd National Criterium Championships : National Track Championships ::3rd Individual pursuit ::3rd Points race ;2008 : 1st
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,
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: UCI Track Cycling World Cup ::1st Team pursuit –
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::1st Individual pursuit –
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::3rd Individual pursuit –
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: 1st National Criterium Championships : National Road Championships ::1st Under–23 ::3rd Senior :UEC European U23 Track Championships ::1st Team Pursuit (with Lizzie Armistead and Katie Colclough) ::3rd Individual Pursuit ;2009 : 1st
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: 08–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup ::1st Team pursuit –
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::3rd Individual pursuit –
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: 09–10 UCI Track World Cup ::1st
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–
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::2nd
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;2010 : 3rd National Criterium Championships ;2011 : 1st
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, UEC European Track Championships : 1st
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, UCI Track World Cup : National Track Championships ::1st
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::3rd
Points race A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men from 1984 to 2008 and for women from 1996 to 2008. Since 2012, the points race has been one of the omniu ...
;2012 : 1st
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UCI Track World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
: UCI Track World Cup ::1st
Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
::1st
Individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the rac ...
;2013 : 1st
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, UEC European Track Championships :1st Individual Pursuit, International Belgian Open : 1st National Time Trial Championships ;2014 :
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::1st
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Individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the rac ...
: 1st
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Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
, UEC European Track Championships : National Track Championships ::1st Team pursuit ::3rd Individual pursuit ;2015 : 1st
Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
, UEC European Track Championships :1st Individual Pursuit, Revolution – Round 1, Derby : 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships : 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Reservoir : 2nd
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UCI Track World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
;2016 : 1st
Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
,
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See also

* 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes


References


External links


New Year Honours list: Stars of London 2012 given recognition

BBC Wales – Raise Your Game – Joanna Rowsell

BBC Sport: Generation 2012: Joanna Rowsell


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