Dani Rowe

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 for the 2017 season. After one year, in October 2017 she announced that she would join 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.

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