Career
She is the most successful rider, male or female, in the history of the European Track Championships, with ten titles as of October 2015. Trott was born a month prematurely in Harlow in Essex with a collapsed lung and was later diagnosed with asthma. She was recommended by doctors to take up sport in order to regulate her breathing.
She enjoyed and competed in trampolining but had to give up due to respiratory problems.
She grew up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, where she attended Turnford School. Her older sister Emma Trott is a former road racing cyclist.
Laura Trott first began cycling when her mother decided to take up the sport to lose weight. She joined Team Ibis Cycles for the 2012 road season.
The team also set a new world record time of 3:14.051 in this event.
Including pre-Olympics races and the Olympics final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race. After two seasons with Wiggle-Honda, it was announced in September 2014 that Trott would be joining the Matrix Fitness Vulpine team for 2015 as lead rider.