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Team GB's golden couple Jason Kenny and Laura Trott marry

Cycling's golden couple Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, two of Team GB's most decorated Olympians, have married.

Kenny, 28, confirmed they had tied the knot on Saturday with a tweet which said: "Good morning Mrs Kenny."

It showed a photograph of his new wife in bed with the couple's dogs, Sprolo and Pringle, at her feet.

In a post on Instagram, Trott said the wedding was "the happiest day of my life".

She said: "With all my family and close friends I married my best friend. We had the most amazing day and I'm so pleased to finally be able call Jason my husband."

Trott, 24, won two golds at the Rio Olympics and became Britain's most successful female Olympian.

Kenny triumphed three times to take his gold medal tally to six following successes at the Beijing and London games.

Instead of receiving wedding gifts the couple asked guests to donate to Dementia UK.

On an online fundraising page Trott and Kenny wrote: "Both of our nans suffered from the disease and we think it's about time that they find a cure."

In a tweet, Trott's father Adrian thanked wellwishers and said it was "a wonderful day".

He shared two photographs of the couple with wedding guests.

Trott was pictured in a long-sleeved dress, with a wide lace scoop neck and sweetheart bodice.

Kenny, who has previously joked that he is unmarketable because he is "a miserable sod", wore a dark grey three-piece suit.

The couple, who own a cottage just outside Knutsford, Cheshire, got engaged in December 2014.

Speaking after their success in Rio, Kenny and Trott told Sky News that they would return to training after their honeymoon.

Kenny said: "We will disappear on honeymoon for a few months.

"We've got a really strong team now. We were thin on the ground but we have got a good youth team, under 23 team, coming through.

"Whether I'll even have a place in the squad when I come back... it is going to be very competitive and tough."

After Kenny scooped gold in the Keirin at Rio 2016, Trott joked on Twitter: "Our kids have to get some of these genes right?!"

She later said that the couple had no plans to start a family before the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Trott told Good Morning Britain: "I'm sort of regretting that tweet now, at the time I thought it was funny and now everybody's like, 'Are you having kids?'

"We would like kids obviously but when that happens I don't know.

"I think it would be hard to juggle a cycling career with a child to be totally honest."

The couple's romance first came to light during London 2012, when they were pictured kissing at the women's beach volleyball finals.