Charlotte McShane

0 Charlotte McShane
Charlotte McShane, 2013
Personal information
Date of birth	14th August 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Wick, United Kingdom
societies
Since 2013	Brive Limousin Tri
successes
2008	Xterra U20 world champion
2013	Triathlon U23 world champion
2017	World Champion Mixed Relay
status
active

Charlotte McShane (born August 14, 1990 in Wick , Scotland ) is an Australian triathlete of Scottish descent . She is Xterra U20 World Champion of the year 2008 and Triathlon U23 World Champion of 2013.

Career

McShane grew up in Helensburgh , but moved to a place near Bairnsdale in Victoria in 2005 when he was 15 . McShane now lives and trains in Wollongong , New South Wales , her coach is NSWIS head coach Jamie Turner . Charlotte McShane also values her younger brother Stephen as a training partner.

In 2001, McShane and his family went to Kona, Hawaii, to cheer on her father Frank - since then, Charlotte McShane knew that her future also lay in triathlon and that Kona would remain her long-term goal. In Scotland, Charlotte McShane studied at the Glasgow School of Sport and won several Scottish junior championships. In November 2005, McShane's family moved to Australia and despite her young age, Charlotte initially started long distance and semi-ironman - mainly because she refuses to slipstream .

Xterra U20 World Champion 2008

In 2008, 18-year-old McShane became U20 Xterra World Champion in Wailea Maui. She came fourth in two elite Half Ironman competitions: the Yeppoon 70.3 Half Ironman and the Canberra Half Ironman Triathlon . At the Oceania Championships on the long distance, the 18-year-old finished sixth - also in the elite category.

In 2009, McShane was still concentrating on the long distance. McShane won gold at the Victoria State Elite Short Distance Championships as well as the South Australian and North Territories Long Distance Championships. She was third in the Elite Female Shepparton 70.3 Half Ironman and fourth in the Elite Female Canberra 70.3 Half Ironman .

In 2010 McShane decided, despite her aversion to slipstream driving, to return exclusively to the short distance. H. to start at ITU competitions. In Geneva she won the European Cup silver and she represented Australia at the U23 World Championships.

Since 2011, McShane has also participated in the French club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux and initially competed for TOCC (Tri Olympique Club Cessonais). McShane also competes in smaller non-ITU races. In June 2011, for example, she took part in two Basque triathlon competitions near her training camp in Vitoria: she won both the Donostia Sprint Triathlon (June 12, 2011) and the Lekeitio Triathlon (June 18, 2011).

Triathlon U23 world champion 2013

In the 2013 season she represented “Brive Limousin Tri” and was the driving force behind her club. She finished 25th in Dunkirk (May 26, 2013) and fourth in Les Sables d'Olonne (June 9, 2013), with only two of the club's runners even reaching the finish.
In September 2013 she became the U23 world champion in London.

With third place in the ninth and final race of the 2016 season, she finished eighth in the ITU's annual ranking.

In July 2017, she became world champion in mixed relay with the Australian team in Hamburg (mixed relay).

Sporting successes

Web links

Commons : Charlotte McShane  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• McShanes Profile Page on the DTR Sports Management website ( Memento from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile for Charlotte McShane at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science , accessed May 26, 2014
• Profile and results of Charlotte McShane in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 2, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kevin Koresky: Charlotte McShane Q&A. November 1, 2009, archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; accessed on May 27, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Lindemann storms onto the podium in Hamburg (July 15, 2017)