Rebecca Romero

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Rebecca Jayne Romero (born 24 January 1980) is an English sportsperson, a former World Champion and Olympic Games medallist at rowing, and a reigning World and Olympic champion track cyclist. [ [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=5672 Profile on British Olympic Association's website] ] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7565385.stm Romero beats GB team-mate to gold] BBC News Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:22 UK]

Biography

Romero was born in Carshalton, Surrey, of an English mother and Spanish father, and brought up in Wallington, Surrey where she attended Wallington High School for Girls [cite web|url=http://www.wallingtongirls.sutton.sch.uk/content_t.asp?cat=3&sub=76&id=299| title=Rebecca Romero ' . . . . live your dream'| publisher=Wallington High School for Girls] . Her success in both sports has meant that she has been funded as a full-time athlete since graduating from university.cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/28/cmfame28.xml| title=Rebecca Romero: fame and fortune| publisher=Telegraph.co.uk| date=2008] She went to St Mary's College in Strawberry Hill, where she studied Sports Science and English, gaining a 2.1 in 2002. She has a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Communications, which she gained in 2006.

Romero has won world championships in both sports; as a rower, she won a silver medal at the Athens 2004 Olympics in the quadruple sculls, and the following year was part of the British crew that won the 2005 World Championships in the quad sculls. Suffering from a persistent back injury, Romero retired from rowing in 2006. [cite web| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7318166.stm| title=Champion Romero eyes Olympic gold| publisher=BBC Sport| date=28 March 2008] She later took up track cycling, and made rapid progress in her new sport, specialising in track endurance events.

In December 2006, Romero won a silver medal in the pursuit at the UCI Track World Cup event in Moscow - her international cycling debut - losing out to fellow Briton Wendy Houvenaghel.

Romero won her first Cycling World Championships medal in March 2007 with silver in the 3km pursuit. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/6509905.stm| title=Pursuit quartet and Hoy take gold| publisher=BBC Sport| date=30 March 2007] The following year, at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, she won the individual and, (with Houvenaghel and Joanna Rowsell), team pursuit events.

She became the first British woman ever to compete in two different sports at the Olympic Games when she rode in the individual pursuit in Beijing. In winning the gold, she also became only the second woman of any country (after Roswitha Krause of East Germany) to win a medal in two different sports at Summer Games. [cite web| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2573543/Rebecca-Romero-makes-British-Olympic-history-with-gold-in-velodrome---Beijing-Olympics.html| title=Rebecca Romero makes British Olympic history with gold in velodrome| publisher=Telegraph.co.uk| date=17 August 2008]

Romero appeared nude on her bicycle in an advert for Powerade sports drink in the run up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. [cite web| url=http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA55870220080805|title=British athletes bare all for advertising campaign| publisher=Reuters| date=5 August 2008]

Achievements

Rowing

;Olympic Games:2004 – Silver, Quadruple Sculls (with Frances Houghton, Debbie Flood, Alison Mowbray);World Championships:2001 – 5th, Quadruple Sculls:2002 – 5th, Quadruple Sculls:2003 – 4th, Double Sculls :2005 – Gold, Quadruple Sculls (with Katherine Grainger, Frances Houghton, Sarah Winkless);U23 World Championships:1999 – 4th, 1x:2000 – Gold, 2-

Cycling

:GBR Time Trial Champion (Cycling) 2006:UCI Track World Cups: 2 Silver Medals (Moscow & Manchester):2007 World Championships - Silver, 3 km Pursuit:GBR National 3km Pursuit Champion (Cycling) 2007:2008 World Championships - Gold, 3 km Pursuit:2008 World Championships - Gold, Team Pursuit:2008 Summer Olympics Gold, Individual Pursuit

See also

*Leander Club (member)

References

External links

*Official|http://www.rebeccaromero.co.uk/
* [http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/gbr/GBRiderInfo/Romero_Rebecca_Bio.asp Profile on] British Cycling
* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041069/Naked-ambition-Britains-Olympians-strip-prepare-make-history-Beijing.html Olympians strip down as they prepare to make history in Beijing] Photos by award-winning photographer Nadav Kander for Powerade advertising campaign, The Daily Mail

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