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Nickname | Shaza | ||||||||||||
Born | Nambour, Queensland |
23 December 1987 ||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||
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Current team | Rabo-Liv Women Cycling Team | ||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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Sunshine Coast Cycling Club | |||||||||||||
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2011 2012–2014 2015– |
Bizkaia-Durango Orica-AIS Rabo-Liv Women Cycling Team |
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Infobox last updated on 20 September 2012 |
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Shara Gillow (born 23 December 1987) is an Australian cyclist. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she finished 13th in the time trial and 39th in the road race.
Personal
Nicknamed Shaza, Gillow was born on 23 December 1987 in Nambour, Queensland.[1][2] Her father is an Olympic cyclist who represented Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1][3] She attended Nambour Christian College then was home schooled and obtained a Bachelor of Language from Western Sydney Institute.[1][2] As of 2012, she lives in Belli, Queensland.[1]
Beyond cycling, Gillow is also a surfer.[2]
Cycling
Gillow is a road cyclist.[2] Her events are the Road Race and Individual Time Trial.[1] She did not become a professional cyclist until she was twenty-years old, taking inspiration from her father to get involved with the sport.[1][3]
Gillow has been coached by Martin Barras since 2010.[1][2] Her coach said "Gillow was one of the most physically gifted cyclists he had seen, but tended to be too conservative and protective when competing."[3] Her primary training base is in Italy, with a secondary training base in Australia.[1] She is a member of the Sunshine Coast Cycling Club.[1] She has cycling scholarships with the Queensland Academy of Sport and Australian Institute of Sport.[1][2] She is a member of the Greenedge professional cycling team.[4]
Gillow finished 4th at the 2011 Memorial Davide Fardelli in Rogno, Italy.[1] She finished 3rd at the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen in Germany.[1] She finished 9th overall at the 2011 Giro Donne in Italy.[1] She finished 8th at the 2012 La visite chrono du Gatineau in Canada.[1] She finished 7th at the 2012 Prologue GP Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg.[1] She finished 1st in the individual time trial and 2nd in the road event at the 2012 Oceania Road Championships in Queenstown, New Zealand.[1] She finished 2nd at the 2012 Women's Tour of New Zealand.[1] She finished 1st in the individual time trial event at the 2012 Australian Road Championships in Learmonth, Australia.[1]
Gillow was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the road race and individual time trial.[1][3][4][5][6] Prior to the Olympics, she raced with Australia's Orica-AIS team in the 2012 Giro Donne.[3] She finished 13th in the time trial and 39th in the road race.[7]
Palmares
Source:[8]
- 2008
- 2nd Overall Tour of Bright
- 2009
- 2nd Overall Canberra Tour
- 2010
- 1st stage 1 Mersey Valley Tour, ITT
- 8th World Time Trial Championships
- 2011
- 1st
National Time Trial championships
- 1st
Oceania Time Trial Championships
- 1st
Oceania Road Race Championships
- 3rd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 9th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stage 2
- 2012
- 1st Stage 3 Jayco Bay Cycling Classic
- 1st
Australian National Time Trial Championships
- 1st
Oceania Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Oceania Road Race Championships
- 2nd World TTT Championships
- 10th World Championships, ITT
- 13th 2012 Summer Olympics - Time trial
- 39th 2012 Summer Olympics - Road race
- 2013
- 1st
Australian National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Stage 4
- 3rd Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
- 4th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2014
- 1st
Oceania Time Trial Championships
- 2nd National Time Trial championships
- 3rd Oceania Road Race Championships
- 4th Open de Suède Vargarda TTT]]
- 6th Commonwealth Games Road Race Championships
- 9th National Road Race championships
- 2015
- 1st
National Time Trial championships
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "London 2012 - Shara Gillow". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c d e f "Shara Gillow". Australia: Cycling Australia. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c d e 26th June 2012 5:00 AM (26 June 2012). "Games dream a reality for Gillow | Sunshine Coast Cycling | Cycling and Mountain Biking in Sunshine Coast". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b "Olympic hills are alive for Hosking". Canberra Times. 29 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ "Evans spearheads Australian road cycling team". AFP. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ "Cyclist O'Grady off to sixth Olympics". Nine MSN. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ "Shara Gillow - Events and results". london2012.com. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ Profile at Cycling Quotient
External links
- Official website
- Shara Gillow profile at GreenEDGE Cycling
- Shara Gillow profile at Cycling Archives
- Shara Gillow profile at Cycling Quotient