Dani King

Danielle 'Dani' King MBE (born 21 November 1990) is an English track cyclist. King is three times a world champion in the women's team pursuit, competing for the winning Great Britain team at the 2011 World Championshipsalongside Laura Trott and Wendy Houvenaghel, 2012 alongside Trott and Joanna Rowsell, and 2013 with Trott and Elinor Barker. King sat out the 2014 event, again won by Great Britain with a team of Trott, Rowsell, Barker and Katie Archibald, but remains the reigning Olympic champion in the event.
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, King 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.
King was appointed 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.
In September 2016, King signed for Cylance Pro Cycling for the 2017 season.

King 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. Whilst attending Hamble school the British cycling talent team visited in 2005 where they chose her to be on their training team. 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 co athletes she was chosen for team GB.

King is in a relationship with fellow cyclist Matthew Rowe. In 2015 she announced that the couple were engaged.