Sharon Laws
Laws in the 2009 UCI Road World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Sharon Laws |
| Born |
7 July 1974 Nairobi, Kenya |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb; 8.5 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Podium Ambition Pro Cycling |
| Discipline | Road & MTB |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2008–2009 | Team Halfords Bikehut |
| 2010–2011 | Garmin–Cervélo |
| 2012 | AA Drink–leontien.nl |
| 2013 | Lotto Belisol Ladies |
| 2014 | UnitedHealthcare |
| 2015 | Bigla |
| 2016 | Podium Ambition Pro Cycling |
| Major wins | |
| 2008 British National Time Trial Champion 2012 British National Road Race Champion 2004 Absa Cape Epic Women's Category 2009 Absa Cape Epic Women's Category |
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Medal record
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Sharon Laws (born 7 July 1974) is a British former professional cyclist, who currently works as an environmental consultant.
Laws was born in Nairobi, Kenya, grew up in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire and has lived in Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the UK.
She gained an MSc in conservation and worked both before and during her cycling career as an environmental consultant to organisations including the British Government, the United Nations and for mining company Rio Tinto in Australia.
Laws previously competed in adventure racing and endurance mountain biking. She won the eight-day Absa Cape Epic mountain-bike race in South Africa in 2004 with partner Hanlie Booyens. She then competed again with Booyens in the Women's Category in 2009, once again claiming 1st prize.
She began riding on the road to train for mountain biking and her form on the road was confirmed when she moved to Australia. She was approached to ride for Australia after coming second in the national championship in Ballarat, but the British official, Dave Brailsford, signed her for Team Halfords Bikehut. After turning professional at the age of 33, she made her base Girona, Spain, and undertook winter training in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Her first victory in the team came was the Cheshire Classic stage race, which she won after coming second on the first and second stages. She got in the break on the first day in the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin but eased up on team orders to let Nicole Cooke catch the leaders. Cooke won the stage with Laws fifth. Laws crashed on the fifth stage but rejoined the peloton after a long chase. Her elbow needed a stitch but she could continue racing. She finished sixth overall.
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