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Celebrating 120 years of female Olympians with Laura Kenny

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As we continue our celebration of 120 years of female athletes at the Olympics, we turn to one of Team GB’s cycling greats, Laura Kenny (Trott).

With four Olympic medals to her name, and 30 cycling medals in total, she has been a consistent figure in the Team GB cycling team, the London Olympic Games of 2012 seeing her put in a stellar performance at just 20 years of age.

In the team pursuit, she was part of the team that broke the world record three times, beating the USA in the final and claiming Olympic glory.

Despite a poor start in the omnium, she clawed her way back in the 500 metre time trial and scraped the gold medal by a point, claiming her second gold of the home games and cementing herself as a pivotal figure for the British

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