Lucy Tyler-Sharman

Lucy Tyler-Sharman

To person
Date of birth	June 6, 1965
nation	Australia
discipline	train
End of career	1998/2000
Most important successes
Olympic games 1996 - points race
Last updated: October 7, 2017

Lucy Tyler-Sharman , b. Lucy Tyler (born June 6, 1965 in Louisville , Kentucky) is a former Australian track cyclist and current trainer.

Athletic career

From childhood on, Lucy Tyler was very enthusiastic about sports, she swam and did triathlons . From 1988 she was active in track cycling. While training in Australia, the native American met her first husband, the cyclist Martin Vinnicombe , who was one of the most successful track cyclists in Australia in the 1980s.

During a training session of the couple in Trexlertown , USA , Vinnicombe tested positive for doping, which meant the end of his career; his wife moved to Australia the following year, took Australian citizenship and became Australian champion in scratch and sprint in 1993 . The marriage with Vinnicombe was divorced; In 1995 Lucy Tyler married the Australian cyclist Graham Sharman , runner-up in the 1998 team sprint . Sharman was also convicted of doping in 2001 and banned. Lucy Tyler and Graham Sharman's marriage was divorced in 2005.

1996 Lucy Tyler-Sharman second in the individual pursuit at the Track World Championships in Manchester and won bronze in the points race at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . She was nominated for the road race at short notice and was preferred to the driver Kathryn Watt , a decision that successfully challenged her in court. In 1998 in Bordeaux, Lucy Tyler-Sharman became world champion in the single pursuit. In the same year she received the Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy ("Oppy Oscar"), named after the legendary Australian cycling star Hubert Opperman , for the best performance of the year in Australian sport.

At the 1998 Commonwealth Games , Lucy Tyler-Sharman was defeated in the semifinals of the singles pursuit; she made serious allegations against the coach and team leader, especially the mechanic who sabotaged her bike. She was then expelled from the team and sent home. She is the only Australian female athlete ever to be sent away from a competition.

Before the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , the Australian Cycling Federation financed Lucy Tyler-Sharman a plane ticket from the USA to Australia so that she could participate in the national championships for qualification; a decision that was controversial. In the face of opposition from other drivers, however, she returned the ticket and announced that she would qualify for the US Olympic team, which she did not succeed.

Lucy Tyler now lives under her maiden name in Pennsylvania and works as a trainer.

successes

1993

• American Champion - Sprint, 1000m Time Trial

1995

• Australian Champion - Sprint, 500m Time Trial, Pursuit, Scratch, Points Trial

1996

• Olympic Games - points race
• World Championship - Individual Pursuit

1998

• World Champion - Single Pursuit
• Track cycling world cup in Victoria - single pursuit, points race
• Track cycling world cup in Berlin - individual pursuit

Web links

• Lucy Tyler-Sharman in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Meutgens (ed.): Doping in cycling. Delius Klasing, Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6 , p. 276.
2. ^ Radsportseiten.net: Memo by Lucy Tyler
3. ↑ Western Australian Sports Organization: ANZ Sports Star Awards - Previous Winners ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 16, 2013 
4. ↑ ABC.net.au: "Lucy Tyler Sharman returns" accessed on February 14, 2010 (English)