Lauryn Therin (born 19 January 1986) is a British

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

and a former

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and

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athlete. Initially she focused on

sports as a youth, mainly taking part in the

javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's de ...

.Lauren Therin
Power of 10. Retrieved on 2014-09-28. Her international debut came in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

at the

2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics The 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics was the third edition of the international athletics competition for youth (under-18) athletes organised by the IAAF. It was held in Sherbrooke, Canada from the 9–13 July at the Université de Sh ...

, where she came eighth in qualifying.Lauren Therin
IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-09-28. She was a double bronze medallist in the discus and javelin at the

Athletics at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games At the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, the athletics events were held at the La Trobe University Athletics Complex in Bendigo, Australia from 2–3 December. A total of 34 events were contested, divided equally between the sexes. Among the medallis ...

(the discus was won by future world champion

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). She went on to study at

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, where she competed in various throw events. She represented Jersey at 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 ...

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, coming fourteenth in the discus throw. Following that, she had her highest finish at the national level, taking fourth place in the javelin at the

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. The repeated that finish the following year. The

2007 Island Games The 2007 Island Games were the 12th edition of the Island Games.The week-long Games were held in Rhodes, Greece, from June 30 to July 6, 2007. Medal count Sports The sports chosen for the games were: See also * Basketball at the 2007 Islan ...

saw Therin take a

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sweep in the throws by coming first in the shot, discus and javelin events. She was also part of the Jersey women's 4×100 metres relay team. This was to be her final international athletics competition, however. Her personal best results were 47.25 metres in the discus throw, achieved in 2005; and 52.09 metres in the javelin throw, achieved in May 2007 in

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. She competed in

bobsleigh Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobslei ...

and was a medallist for Great Britain at the

FIBT World Championships 2008 The FIBT World Championships 2008 ran February 11–24, 2008 in Altenberg, Germany for the fifth time, having done so in 1991 (bobsleigh), 1994 (skeleton), 1999 (skeleton), and 2000 (men's bobsleigh). It is the first time Altenberg has hosted all ...

. She left the sport that same year and took part in

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's Girls4Gold programme, which identified her talent for cycling. She established herself as a national level cyclist at the 2012

British National Team Sprint Championships The British National Team Sprint Championships are held annually as part of the British National Track Championships organized by British Cycling. A women's championship was held for the first time in 2008. Past winners Men Women See ...

, where she shared in the silver medal with teammate

Eleanor Richardson Eleanor Richardson (born 1 July 1986) is a Scottish female track cyclist, representing Great Britain and Scotland at international competitions. Richardson represented Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She competed at the 2015 UCI London ...

. She began acting as a tandem pilot for visually-impaired Paralympian cyclists and she helped

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to two bronze medals at the 2013 British National Track Championships. The following year she piloted

Rhiannon Henry Rhiannon Henry (born 20 May 1987) is a Welsh swimmer, paracyclist and paratriathlete who has competed in the Paralympic Games on three occasions winning two medals in swimming events. She also won World and European Championship medals as a ...

to a silver medal at the 2014 event. She and Henry teamed up again for the 2014

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.Great Britain para-cyclists head to Tuscany to begin Paralympic road qualification
British Paralympic Association. Retrieved on 2014-09-28.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Therin, Lauryn Living people 1986 births British female cyclists British track cyclists British female bobsledders British female discus throwers British female javelin throwers Jersey athletes Commonwealth Games competitors for Jersey Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Jersey sportswomen 21st-century British sportswomen Alumni of Cardiff University