# 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 Cylance Pro Cycling for the 2017 season. After one year, in October 2017 she announced that she would join WaowDeals Pro Cycling 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.

## Major results
### Track
#### 2006

    National Youth Track Championships
       2nd Individual pursuit
       3rd Scratch

#### 2008

    2nd Scratch, National Junior Track Championships

#### 2009

    National Track Championships
       1st Derny
       1st Madison (with Alex Greenfield)
       3rd Individual pursuit
       3rd Points race
       3rd Scratch

#### 2010

    National Track Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Derny
       2nd Madison
       2nd Points race
       3rd Scratch

#### 2011

    UCI Track World Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Scratch
    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
    UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
       1st Team pursuit (with Katie Colclough and Laura Trott)
       2nd Omnium
    National Track Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Scratch
    2nd Omnium, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Astana

#### 2012

    1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
    1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    1st Team pursuit, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, London
    1st Team pursuit, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow

#### 2013

    1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    Team pursuit, 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
       1st Manchester
       1st Aguascalientes
    UEC European Track Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Points race
    National Track Championships
       1st Madison (with Laura Trott)
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Individual pursuit
       2nd Points race
       3rd Scratch
    1st Points race, Revolution – Round 1, Manchester

#### 2014

    National Track Championships
       1st 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 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 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 Road race, Commonwealth Games
    3rd Overall The Women's Tour
       1st British rider classification
    10th Road race, UEC European Road Championships