1. Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE was born on 5 December 1988 and is a retired English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competed on track and road.
16 Facts About Joanna Rowsell
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Joanna Rowsell was born in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton.
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Joanna Rowsell attended Cuddington Croft Primary School from 1993 to 2000 and Nonsuch High School for Girls from 2000 to 2007.
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Joanna Rowsell competed for Sutton in the London Youth Games.
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Joanna Rowsell was picked up by British Cycling's Talent Team programme in 2004, after being tested at her school.
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Joanna Rowsell represented the UK at the European and World Junior Track and Road Championships in these years.
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Joanna Rowsell continued to compete on the track, winning her first World Title at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester as part of the women's pursuit team.
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Joanna Rowsell won a gold medal for the team pursuit alongside King and Trott.
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In 2013, Joanna 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 Ghent.
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In September 2014 Joanna 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.
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In 2016, Joanna Rowsell won a gold medal in the Team Pursuit at the Rio Olympics.
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On 14 March 2017, Joanna Rowsell announced that she was retiring from the sport.
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Joanna Rowsell has alopecia areata, a condition resulting in hair loss.
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Joanna Rowsell is a descendant of the Swiss inventor Jean Samuel Pauly.
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Joanna Rowsell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.
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Joanna Rowsell's younger brother Erick Rowsell is a road racing cyclist.