The 24-year-old then watched on from the sidelines as Kenny drew level with Sir Chris Hoy by winning his sixth Olympic gold in a dramatic keirin final from which he was almost disqualified.
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Trott also won the team pursuit, doing the same double she managed as a 20-year-old in London four years ago.
After taking gold, Kenny embraced his fiance and fellow gold medal victor Laura Trott, who was in tears in the center of the track. If the couple was a country, their five Rio gold medals alone would, as of today, put them in thirteenth place in the medal standings for gold medals.
Kenny and Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang faced an anxious wait to see if they would be permitted to join the restart after appearing to marginally overtake the derny before it left the track.
Kenny’s fiance Laura Trott won the Women’s Omnium less than an hour earlier. And you better believe they congratulated each other on Twitter on Tuesday night, when they both won their final gold medals of the games.
A false start was called but neither was disqualified as organisers couldn’t decide which one had infringed first.
Rio de Janerio: Jason Kenny, Britain’s new track cycling king, was looking forward to something a little more sedate after his golden rides during a fast and furious week at the Olympic velodrome.
She beat Katy Marchant in the semi-finals and then downed fellow British rider Rebecca James, the fastest qualifier, for the gold medal.
“I was a little bit anxious then, but once it was re-run I knew the second false start didn’t even matter because you could tell it wasn’t Jason who might be in trouble”.
“It would be nice to get back to a bit of normality, if that’s possible”, he said.
With one eye on her closest rivals at every stage of the 25km race, her lead at the top of the leaderboard soon became unassailable after the halfway point.
“We didn’t really celebrate”.
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While the two clearly deserve a well-earned break, they won’t have much time to rest as they plan to get married next month. Although they won only six this time – one less than the previous two Games – Britain only had entrants in nine of the 10 events, as the women’s sprint team didn’t qualify.
