Shara Gillow

Shara Gillow

Gillow in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Shara Gillow
Nickname	Shaza
Born	(1987-12-23) 23 December 1987 (age 33) Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist[2]
Amateur team
Sunshine Coast Cycling Club
Professional teams
2011	Bizkaia–Durango
2012–2014	GreenEDGE–AIS
2015–2016	Rabo–Liv
2017–2020	FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope[3][4]
show Medal record Representing GreenEDGE–AIS Women's road cycling UCI Road World Championships 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial

Gillow competing in the 2012 Olympics time trial in London

Gillow competing in the 2012 Olympics road race in London

Shara Gillow (born 23 December 1987) is an Australian former professional cyclist, who competed professionally between 2011 and 2020, for the Bizkaia–Durango, Orica–AIS, Rabo–Liv and FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope teams.^[5] 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[]

Gillow was born on 23 December 1987 in Nambour, Queensland.^[1][6] Her father David Gillow is an Olympic cyclist who represented Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[1][7] She attended then was home schooled and obtained a Bachelor of Language from Western Sydney Institute.^[1][6] As of 2012, she lives in .^[1]

Beyond cycling, Gillow is also a surfer.^[6]

Cycling[]

Gillow is a road cyclist.^[6] 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][7]

Gillow has been coached by Martin Barras since 2010.^[1][6] 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."^[7] 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][6] She was a member of the GreenEDGE–AIS professional cycling team.^[8]

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 d'Italia Femminile 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][7][8][9][10]} Prior to the Olympics, she raced with Australia's GreenEDGE–AIS team in the Giro Donne.^[7] She finished 13th in the time trial and 39th in the road race.^[11]

In September 2016 it was announced that Gillow would join FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope for the 2017 season.^[12] She spent the rest of her professional career with the team, announcing her retirement in September 2020.^[13]

Major results[]

Source:^[14]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• "Shara Gillow at GreenEDGE Cycling". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
• Shara Gillow at Cycling Archives
• Shara Gillow at CQ Ranking
• Shara Gillow at ProCyclingStats
• Shara Gillow at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)