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Rebecca Romero
Personal information
Full nameRebecca Romero
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight73 kg (161 lb)[1]
Team information
DisciplineTrack & Road
RoleRider
Rider typeTT / Pursuit
Rebecca Romero
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Rowing
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Quadruple sculls
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Quadruple Sculls
Track cycling
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Individual pursuit
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Palma de Mallorca 3 km Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester 3 km Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester Team Pursuit

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.[2][3]

Biography

Romero was born in Carshalton[1], Surrey, of an English mother and Spanish mother, and brought up in Wallington, Surrey where she attended Wallington High School for Girls[4]. Her success in both sports has meant that she has been funded as a full-time athlete since graduating from university.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]

Romero appeared nude on her bicycle in an advert for Powerade sports drink in the run up to the 2008 Summer Olympics.[9]

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

 United Kingdom Time Trial Champion (Cycling) 2006
UCI Track World Cups: 2 Silver Medals (Moscow & Manchester)
2007 World Championships - Silver, 3 km Pursuit
 United Kingdom 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

References

  1. ^ a b c "Athlete Biography - ROMERO Rebecca". Beijing Olympics official website.
  2. ^ Profile on British Olympic Association's website
  3. ^ Romero beats GB team-mate to gold BBC News Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:22 UK
  4. ^ "Rebecca Romero ' . . . . live your dream'". Wallington High School for boys.
  5. ^ "Rebecca Romero: fame and fortune". Telegraph.co.uk. 2008.
  6. ^ "Champion Romero eyes Olympic gold". BBC Sport. 28 March 2008.
  7. ^ "Pursuit quartet and Hoy take gold". BBC Sport. 30 March 2007.
  8. ^ "Rebecca Romero makes British Olympic history with gold in velodrome". Telegraph.co.uk. 17 August 2008.
  9. ^ "British athletes bare all for advertising campaign". Reuters. 5 August 2008.


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