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Julia Shaw (born 28 July 1965) is an
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racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...
specialising in the
individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also trac ...
, currently riding for the drag2zero.com cycling team. She was won multiple British national championships, the
British Best All-Rounder The British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is an annual British cycle-racing competition. It ranks riders by the average of their average speeds in individual time trials, over 50 and and 12 hours fo ...
competition four times and, in 2010, won a bronze medal in the Women's road time trial event at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.


Biography


Early life

Shaw was born on
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in the North West
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. She attended the
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gaining a degree in physics. She then took a master's degree.


Outside cycling

Shaw works as a research scientist specialising in
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. She now lives in
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.


Cycling career


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.


International honours

In 2008, she won the World Masters Championship Time Trial Championship (Women age 40-44) at
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.
British Cycling British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national sport governing body, governing body for cycle sport in United Kingdom, Great Britain. It administers most competitive cycling in Great Britain, the Channel Islands a ...
did not consider Shaw for selection to the
2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ...
. In 2010, she won a Silver medal in the
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behind
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, meeting the standard
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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
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of
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and 5 seconds behind Silver medallist
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of
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.


Domestic competition

Shaw has won the
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competition four times between 2006 and 2010. Only
Beryl Burton Beryl Burton Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, OBE (12 May 1937 – 5 May 1996) was an English Cycle sport, racing cyclist who dominated the Women's sports, women's sport, winning more than 90 domestic championships ...
, who won it 25 times in a row, has won it more often. Her winning average speed of 27.451 mph in 2009 was the record until 2016. She won the Women's
British National Time Trial Championships The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
in 2005 and has finished on the podium seven times. As of 2015 she has won 27
Cycling Time Trials Cycling Time Trials is the bicycle racing organisation which supervises individual and team time trials in England and Wales. It was formed out of predecessor body the Road Time Trials Council (RTTC) in 2002. Time trialling A time trial tes ...
national championships at standard distance. She is the former British 'competition record' holder for 10 miles with her 2012 time of 19:47. She broke the competition record for 25 miles with her 2011 time of 50:01. She has twice broken the competition record for 50 miles, her best being the 2010 time of 1:46:46. 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, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016.


Coaching

Shaw has worked with coach Auriel Forrester and now works with the exercise physiologist Dr Jamie Pringle. Pringle worked for the
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, a grant funded organisation governed by
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. The English Institute of Sport provides science and medicine support to a wide variety of National Governing Bodies of British Olympic sports.


Achievements

;2003 :3rd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship :3rd CTT National 50 mile TT Championship :1st Duo Normand with Liz Milne :1st World Masters Individual Pursuit (35-39) ;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 The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
;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 :3rd
British National Time Trial Championships The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:1st
British Best All-Rounder The British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is an annual British cycle-racing competition. It ranks riders by the average of their average speeds in individual time trials, over 50 and and 12 hours fo ...
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 The British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is an annual British cycle-racing competition. It ranks riders by the average of their average speeds in individual time trials, over 50 and and 12 hours fo ...
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 :2nd
British National Time Trial Championships The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:1st World Masters Individual Time Trial (40-44) :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 The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:1st
British Best All-Rounder The British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is an annual British cycle-racing competition. It ranks riders by the average of their average speeds in individual time trials, over 50 and and 12 hours fo ...
Competition :1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions) :5th British National Road Race Championships :2nd Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1 :3rd Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendee, UCI Cat 1.1 :1st Brompton World Championships : F. T. Bidlake Memorial Plaque ;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 The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:1st
British Best All-Rounder The British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is an annual British cycle-racing competition. It ranks riders by the average of their average speeds in individual time trials, over 50 and and 12 hours fo ...
Competition :1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions) :3rd Women's road time trial event at the Commonwealth Games :5th Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1 ;2011 :1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship :1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship :1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship :2nd
British National Time Trial Championships The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:8th Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1 :6th Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendee, UCI Cat 1.1 :17th UCI Road World Championships Copenhagen, Elite Women's Time Trial :1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions) ;2012 :1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship :1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship :2nd
British National Time Trial Championships The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions) :1st Vita Cycles Ten Minutes of Hell Mersey Tunnel Time Trial :1st Brompton World Championships :4th Chrono Champenois – Trophee Europeen, UCI Cat 1.1 :5th Celtic Chrono TT, UCI Cat 1.2 ;2013 :1st CTT National 10 mile TT Championship :1st CTT National 25 mile TT Championship :1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship :1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions) :1st CTT National Circuit TT Championships :10th Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendee, UCI Cat 1.1 ;2014 :Did not race ;2015 :1st UCWT Tour of Cambridgeshire Time Trial (UCI) :1st CTT National 50 mile TT Championship :1st Duo Normand with Steve Whitewick ;2016 :2nd CTT National 50 mile TT Championship :3rd CTT National 10 mile TT Championship :1st CTT National Circuit TT Championship :6th
British National Time Trial Championships The British National Time Trial Championships for cycling are held annually. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic white cycling jersey featuring blue and red stripes, which can be worn by the rider at other time trial events in ...
:1st Beryl Burton Trophy (Champion of Champions)


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