Jason Kenny

Jason Kenny
CBE

Kenny at Our Greatest Team Parade in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Jason Francis Kenny
Nickname	The Farnworth Flame
Born	(1988-03-23) 23 March 1988 (age 28) Farnworth, Greater Manchester, England
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
2008–2013	Team Sky+ HD
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 6 1 0 European Championships 1 1 3 World Championships 3 3 2 Commonwealth Games 0 2 0 Total 10 7 5 Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team sprint 2012 London Team sprint 2012 London Individual sprint 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team sprint 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual sprint 2016 Rio de Janeiro Keirin 2008 Beijing Individual sprint World Championships 2011 Apeldoorn Sprint 2013 Minsk Keirin 2016 London Sprint 2009 Pruszków Team Sprint 2011 Apeldoorn Team sprint 2012 Melbourne Sprint 2010 Ballerup Team sprint 2012 Melbourne Keirin European Championships 2010 Pruszków Keirin 2013 Apeldoorn Keirin 2010 Pruszków Sprint 2010 Pruszków Team sprint 2013 Apeldoorn Sprint Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Team sprint 2014 Glasgow Sprint

Jason Francis Kenny, CBE (born 23 March 1988) is an English track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. After winning multiple World and European Junior titles in 2006 and achieving medals in the under 23 European championships in 2007, Kenny was selected ahead of Ross Edgar to compete for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Along with Chris Hoy and Jamie Staff, he won a gold medal in the team sprint, breaking the world record in the qualifying round. He finished behind team-mate Chris Hoy in the final of the individual sprint, gaining a silver medal.

In January 2012, he gained his first world championship title, after Grégory Baugé's results were nullified after a backdated 12-month ban for missing a drugs test, and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) promoted Kenny to the gold medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won gold medals in both the team sprint and in the individual sprint, beating Baugé in the final. At the 2016 Summer Olympics Kenny repeated his 2012 wins in the Team Sprint and the Individual Sprint, and also won a Gold Medal the Keirin,

Kenny is the joint holder of the highest number of Olympic Golds for a British athlete (6) alongside fellow track cyclist Chris Hoy. Kenny's six Olympic gold medals place him the joint 27th in terms of gold medals won in the modern Summer Olympic games since 1896 with only Michael Phelps (23) and Usain Bolt (9) winning more since the Games of the new millennium in 2000.