Shara Gillow, London 2012 Time Trial - Aug 2012

Shara Gillow, London Olympics - July 2012

Shara Gillow (born 23 December 1987) is an Australian former professional cyclist, who competed professionally between 2011 and 2020, for the , , and teams. She was selected to represent Australia at the

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, where she finished 13th in the

time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

and 39th in the road race.

Personal

Gillow was born on 23 December 1987 in

Nambour, Queensland Nambour is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Nambour had a population of 11,187 people. Geography Nambour is north of the state capital, Brisbane. The town lies in the sub ...

. Her father

David Gillow David Gillow (born 16 April 1958) is a Zimbabwean former cyclist Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are ...

is an Olympic cyclist who represented Zimbabwe at the

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. She attended Nambour Christian College then was home schooled and obtained a Bachelor of Language from Western Sydney Institute. , she lives in Belli, Queensland. Beyond cycling, Gillow is also a surfer.

Cycling

Gillow is a road cyclist. Her events are the Road Race and Individual Time Trial. She did not become a professional cyclist until she was twenty years old, taking inspiration from her father to get involved with the sport. Gillow has been coached by Martin Barras since 2010. 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." Her primary training base is in Italy, with a secondary training base in Australia. She is a member of the Sunshine Coast Cycling Club. She has cycling scholarships with the Queensland Academy of Sport and

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

. She was a member of the professional cycling team. Gillow finished 4th at the 2011 Memorial Davide Fardelli in Rogno, Italy. She finished 3rd at the

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in Germany. She finished 9th overall at the

2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile The 2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile, or Giro Donne, was the 22nd running of the Giro d'Italia Femminile. It was held over ten stages from 1 to 10 July 2012, starting in Rome and finishing with an individual time trial in San Francesco al Campo near Tu ...

in Italy. She finished 8th at the 2012 La visite chrono du Gatineau in Canada. She finished 7th at the 2012 Prologue GP Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg. She finished 1st in the individual time trial and 2nd in the road event at the 2012 Oceania Road Championships in Queenstown, New Zealand. She finished 2nd at the 2012

Women's Tour of New Zealand The Women's Tour of New Zealand is a stage race for elite women road cyclists held in New Zealand at the end of February or the beginning of March. It is rated as 2.2 on the UCI classification scheme. It was not held in 2013 or 2014, but return ...

. She finished 1st in the individual time trial event at the 2012 Australian Road Championships in Learmonth, Australia. Gillow was selected to represent Australia at the

in the road race and

individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also track-b ...

. Prior to the Olympics, she raced with Australia's team in the

Giro Donne The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in women's r ...

. She finished 13th in the time trial and 39th in the road race. In September 2016 it was announced that Gillow would join for the 2017 season. She spent the rest of her professional career with the team, announcing her retirement in September 2020.

Major results

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at ''Cycling Quotient'' ;2008 : 2nd Overall

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;2009 : 2nd Overall

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: 8th Overall

: 9th Chrono Champenois ;2010 : 1st Stage 1 ( ITT)

Mersey Valley Tour The River Mersey () is in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. For centuries it has formed par ...

: 8th

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

;2011 : Oceania Road Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Road race ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Time trial : 1st MaillotAustralia

, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall

: 4th Overall

: 4th Memorial Davide Fardelli : 7th Chrono Champenois : 9th Overall

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in women's roa ...

::1st Stage 2 ;2012 : Oceania Road Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Time trial ::2nd Silver medal blank

Road race : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

::7th Road race : 1st Stage 3

Bay Classic Series The Bay Classic Series (currently running as the Lexus of Blackburn Bay Crits) is a road cycling race held annually in and around Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia. The race consists of both a men's and a women's competition over three stage ...

::2nd

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

::10th

: 2nd Overall

: 2nd

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: 8th

Chrono Gatineau Chrono Gatineau is an elite women's professional one-day time trial held in Canada and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 1.1 race. In the same week, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau Grand Prix cycliste de Gat ...

;2013 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

::6th Road race : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 4 ( ITT) : 3rd Bronze medal blank

: 3rd

Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen The Chrono Champenois is a European individual time trial bicycle race held around Bétheny in France, in the Champagne region. The race has been organised as a 1.2 event since 1989 for women's and since 1998 there is also a men's race which is ...

: 4th Overall

: 7th Overall

Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol was a women's cycle race Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racin ...

::1st Stage 2 : 10th Overall

Emakumeen Euskal Bira The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...

;

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: Oceania Road Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Time trial ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Road race : National Road Championships ::2nd

::9th Road race : 3rd Overall

BeNe Ladies Tour The Baloise Ladies Tour (formerly the BeNe Ladies Tour) is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in Belgium and the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovere ...

: 4th

: 6th

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

: 10th Overall

;2015 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

::3rd Road race : 1st Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT : 3rd Bronze medal blank

: 10th Overall

;2016 : 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall

Gracia–Orlová Gracia–Orlová is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. It was created in 1987. Since 2004, it starts in Dětmarovice. A mountain stag ...

: Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour ::3rd Team time trial ::9th Road race : 7th Draai van de Kaai : 8th

7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg The 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg ( en, 7-villages circuit Aalburg; also known as the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop van Aalburg due to sponsorship reasons and the Dorpenomloop Wijk en Aalburg) was an elite women's road bicycle race held in and around Aalburg, ...

: 8th

Ridderronde Maastricht Ridderronde Maastricht is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeaster ...

: 10th Chrono Champenois ;2017 : 1st Overall Tour de Charente-Maritime ::1st Stages 1 & 2 ( ITT) : National Road Championships ::2nd

::5th Road race : 2nd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 3rd

Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second tie ...

: 5th

La Flèche Wallonne Féminine La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is a professional women's bicycle road race held each year in Wallonia, Belgium, in April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour, cycling's season-long competition of top-tier races, in which it is the third-olde ...

: 5th

La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...

: 6th

Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...

: 7th

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège, also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Monuments'' of the European professional r ...

: 8th

Women's Tour de Yorkshire The Women's Tour de Yorkshire is a women's road cycling race in Yorkshire, England. From 2015 to 2017, the event was a one-day race. From 2018 onwards, the event has been a two-day event, with a UCI race classification of 2.1. The event is the ...

;2018 : National Road Championships ::3rd

::7th Road race : 6th

La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...

: 7th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 7th

: 8th Overall

Setmana Ciclista Valenciana The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...

: 8th Overall

: 9th

;2019 : National Road Championships ::4th Road race ::5th

: 4th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 9th Overall

Tour de Bretagne Féminin {{Infobox cycling race , name =Tour de Bretagne Féminin , current_event = , image = , date = July , region = France , english = Women's Tour of Brittany , localnames = , nickname = , disc ...

: 9th

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gillow, Shara Living people 1987 births Australian female cyclists Olympic cyclists of Australia Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian Institute of Sport cyclists Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Australian people of Zimbabwean descent People from Nambour, Queensland