Damien Shaw (born 10 July 1984) is a retired Irish road racing cyclist who rode professionally for and . He was the 2015 Irish National Road Race Champion and won a stage on the

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at the 2017 Tour du Loir et Cher.

Career

Shaw was a tandem pilot at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships and the

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, winning a bronze medal in 2012 in the road time trial B with

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. He was the Irish National Road Race Champion in 2015, finishing one minute and two seconds ahead of future Grand Tour stage winner

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. Shaw also finished third in the 2013 edition of the race, and had four second-place finishes in the National Championship

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race. Prior to turning professional in 2016, Shaw worked as a

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and combined this with his cycling training. After spells with Lakeside Wheelers and Aquablue, he was riding with Team ASEA Louth when he won the Irish Road Race Championship. He also competed for Louth at the 2015 An Post Rás where he won the County Rider classification. The second and final victory of his career came on the

at the 2017 Tour du Loir et Cher riding for Irish professional team . Shaw was victorious on stage one and held the race lead until the end of stage four. He finished the race in sixth place, within a minute of winner

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and twelve seconds behind fourth-placed finisher and future

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winner

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Major results

;2011 : 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships ;2012 : 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships ;2013 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;2014 : 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships ;2015 : 1st MaillotIrlanda

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey blue

County rider classification

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;2016 : 5th Overall

;2017 : 5th Overall

: 6th Overall

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::1st Stage 1 ;2018 : 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships : 4th Overall

References

External links

* 1984 births Living people Irish male cyclists Sportspeople from Mullingar 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Ireland-cycling-bio-stub