Sharon Laws

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Sharon Laws Road cycling
Sharon Laws wins the 94.7 Cycle Challenge Jedermannrennen (2012)
Sharon Laws wins the
94.7 Cycle Challenge Jedermannrennen (2012)
To person
Date of birth July 7th 1974
date of death December 16, 2017
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Street
End of career 2016
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
  • 2012 bronze - team time trial
Last updated: December 17, 2017

Sharon Laws (born July 7, 1974 in Nairobi , Kenya ; † December 16, 2017 ) was a British cyclist .

biography

Work as a biologist

Sharon Laws was born in Kenya to British parents and grew up in England . In 2001, the studied biologist returned to Africa to work for a charity organization in Zimbabwe . After further qualification, she worked for the British government and was subsequently seconded to the United Nations in South Africa . After returning to Great Britain, she worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew , eventually working as an environmental consultant for the Rio Tinto Group in Australia . In Africa, the versatile athlete had undertaken mountain bike tours in Mozambique , Lesotho and Swaziland .

Cycling career

In Australia, Laws started cycling in earnest. In 2007 she won the Tour of Bright and came second in the Australian road racing championship . She returned to Great Britain at the request of the British Cycling Federation, won the Cheshire Classic and was called up to the Olympic team. In the road race of the Olympic Games in Beijing , she finished 35th. In the autumn of the same year, she became British champion in the individual time trial .

In 2010 Sharon Laws won the Tour of Bern and came second in the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche . In 2011 she was third in the national road championship and in Open de Suède Vårgårda with her team in the team time trial . In 2012 she was third with Gracia Orlová and fifth with Emakumeen Bira . She also won the British road race title, but to her disappointment was not nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games .

In March 2013 Laws took second place in the South African Road Championship, which was held as an open competition. Just a few days later, she suffered a serious fall during the Cape Argus Race , with numerous fractures and other injuries. Laws ended her cycling career in 2016.

Sharon Laws died on the morning of December 16, 2017, at the age of 43, of complications from cervical cancer .

successes

2004
2008
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Individual Time Trial
2010
2012

Teams

Web links

Commons : Sharon Laws  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt Lloyd and Oenone Wood win Aussie nationals. In: bikeradar.com. January 14, 2008, accessed December 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Sarah Connolly, "Taking the opportunities as they come": an interview with Sharon Laws. podiumcafe.com, May 18, 2011, accessed November 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sharon Laws wins national road race title on cyclingweekly.co.uk v. June 24, 2012 (English)
  4. ^ Danny Hall: Bourton's Olympic cyclist is brought down while leading Cape Argus race in South Africa. Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, March 11, 2013, accessed December 24, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Sharon Laws: Former cyclist dies after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. BBC, December 16, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Laws, Sharon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7th 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Nairobi , Kenya
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2017