User:Elwood90/Sandbox/Julia Shaw

Julia Shaw, is an English racing cyclist specialising in the individual time trial.

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.

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 Masters degree.

Outside cycling
Shaw works as a research scientist specialising in fibre optics.

She now lives in Hampshire.

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."

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.

Domestic competition
Shaw has won the British Best All-Rounder competition four times between 2006 and 2011. 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 five times.

She has won sixteen Cycling Time Trials national championships at standard distance. She has twice broken the competition record for 50 miles, currently holding it with her 2010 time of 1:46:49. 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 and 2010.

Coaching
Shaw has worked with coach Auriel Forrester and now works with the exercise physiologist Dr Jamie Pringle. Pringle works 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.

Palmarès

 * 2003
 * 3rd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship
 * 3rd CTT National 50 mile TT Championship


 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)


 * 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