Julia Shaw

Personal information

Full name

Julia Shaw

Born

28 July 1965
Wirral, England, United Kingdom

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Rider type

Time Triallist

Medal record

Individual time trial
Representing Great Britain
Commonwealth Games
	2010	Women's road time trial

Infobox last updated on
24 February 2011

Julia Shaw (born 28 July 1965) is an English racing cyclist specialising in the individual time trial, currently riding for the drag2zero.com cycling team.

She was won multiple British national championships, the British Best All-Rounder competition four times and, in 2010, won a bronze medal in the Women's road time trial event at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Biography

Early life

Shaw was born on The Wirral in the North West England. She attended the University of Essex gaining a degree in physics. She then took a master's degree.^[1]

Outside cycling

Shaw works as a research scientist specialising in fibre optics.

She now lives in Hampshire.

Cycling career

Taking up cycling

Shaw says that she did no kind of sport until her twenties, and it was ten years after that before she got seriously into cycling.

I didn't do any sport outside school, and I certainly didn't do any at university. Eventually though, I got into triathlon when I started work, because a guy I worked with did them and he seemed to be having a lot of fun. The triathletes I met were such nice people I just sort of got hooked.^[2]

International honours

In 2008 she won the World Masters Championship Time Trial Championship (Women age 40-44) at St. Johann in Tirol.

British Cycling did not consider Shaw for selection to the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2010 she won a Silver medal in the British National Time Trial Championships behind Emma Pooley, meeting the standard laid down by BC for selection. She was added to the team and won a Bronze medal in the Women's road time trial event, 10 seconds behind Gold medallist Tara Whitten of Canada and 5 seconds behind Silver medallist Linda Villumsen of New Zealand.

Domestic competition

Shaw has won the British Best All-Rounder competition four times between 2006 and 2010. Only Beryl Burton, who won it 25 times in a row, has won it more often. Her winning average speed of 27.451 mph in 2009 is the current record.

She won the Women's British National Time Trial Championships in 2005 and has finished on the podium seven times.

As of 2015 he has won 27 Cycling Time Trials national championships at standard distance.

She is the former British 'competition record' holder for 10 miles with her 2012 time of 19:47; the new record (2015) is 19:46.

She broke the competition record for 25 miles with her 2011 time of 50:01 and is the current record holder.

She has twice broken the competition record for 50 miles, currently holding it with her 2010 time of 1:46:46.

She has twice broken the competition record for 100 miles, currently holding it with her 2010 time of 3:45:22.

She has won the Beryl Burton Trophy, awarded to the CTT's woman Champion of Champions, in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Coaching

Shaw has worked with coach Auriel Forrester and now works with the exercise physiologist Dr Jamie Pringle.^[3] Pringle worked for the English Institute of Sport, a grant funded organisation governed by UK Sport. The English Institute of Sport provides science and medicine support to a wide variety of National Governing Bodies of British Olympic sports.^[4]

Palmarès

2003: 3rd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 3rd CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st Duo Normand with Liz Milne; 1st World Masters Individual Pursuit (35-39)

2004: 3rd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 3rd CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship

2005: 3rd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st British National Time Trial Championships

2006: 2nd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 2nd CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 100 mile TT Championship; 3rd British National Time Trial Championships; 1st British Best All-Rounder Competition

2007: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 100 mile TT Championship; 1st British Best All-Rounder Competition; 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions)

2008: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 2nd CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 2nd British National Time Trial Championships; 1st World Masters Individual Time Trial (40-44); 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions)

2009: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 100 mile TT Championship; 3rd British National Time Trial Championships; 1st British Best All-Rounder Competition; 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions); 5th British National Road Race Championships; 2nd Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1; 3rd Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendee, UCI Cat 1.1; 1st Brompton World Championships; F. T. Bidlake Memorial Plaque

2010: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 100 mile TT Championship; 2nd British National Time Trial Championships; 1st British Best All-Rounder Competition; 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions); 3rd Women's road time trial event at the Commonwealth Games; 5th Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1

2011: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 2nd British National Time Trial Championships; 8th Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1; 6th Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendee, UCI Cat 1.1; 17th UCI Road World Championships Copenhagen, Elite Women's Time Trial; 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions)

2012: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 2nd British National Time Trial Championships; 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions); 1st Vita Cycles Ten Minutes of Hell Mersey Tunnel Time Trial; 1st Brompton World Championships; 4th Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1; 5th Celtic Chrono TT, UCI Cat 1.2

2013: 1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship; 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions); 1st CTT National Circuit TT Championships; 10th Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendee, UCI Cat 1.1

2014: Did not race

2015: 1st UCWT Tour of Cambridgeshire Time Trial (UCI); 1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship; 1st Duo Normand with Steve Whitewick

References

↑ "Hampshire with Julia Shaw". Cycling Weekly.
↑ Cycling Weekly, UK, 10/12/2008
↑ http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/archive/349708/how-powerful-are-the-pros.html
↑ http://www.eis2win.co.uk/pages/

External links

Julia Shaw profile at Cycling Archives
Julia Shaw profile at Cycling Quotient
Julia Shaw profile at ProCyclingStats

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