Lucy Tyler-Sharman
Lucy Tyler - Sharman, born Lucy Tyler ( born June 6, 1965 in Louisville, Kentucky ) is a former Australian track cyclist and current trainer.
From child to Lucy Tyler was very keen on sports, she swam and operational triathlon. Since 1988 she has been active in track cycling. When training in Australia, the U.S. citizen met her first husband, the cyclist Martin Vinnicombe know who was in the 1980s one of the most successful track cyclists in Australia.
During a workout, the couple in the U.S. Trexlertown Vinnicombe tested positive for doping, which meant the end of his career; his wife moved a year later to Australia, took Australian citizenship and in 1993 Australian Champion Scratch and Sprint. The marriage with Vinnicombe was divorced; 1995 married Lucy Tyler the Australian cyclist Graham Sharman, Vice World Champion in the team sprint in 1998. Too, Sharman was transferred and locked 2001 of doping. The marriage between Lucy Tyler and Graham Sharman was divorced in 2005.
Lucy Tyler - Sharman 1996 was second in the individual pursuit at the Track World Championships in Manchester and won bronze in the points race at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. For the road race she was nominated in the short term and the driver Kathryn Watts brought forward, a decision that the court successfully challenged this. 1998 Bordeaux was Lucy Tyler - Sharman world champion in the individual pursuit. In the same year she was awarded the Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy ( " Oppy Oscar" ), named after the legendary Australian cycling star Hubert Opperman, for the best performance of the year in Australian sport.
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games Lucy Tyler - Sharman was beaten in the semifinals of the individual pursuit; they made serious allegations against coaches and team management, in particular against the mechanic who sabotaged her bike. Result, she was excluded from the team and sent home. She is the only Australian athlete that has ever been turned away from a competition.
Prior to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the Australian Cycling Federation Lucy Tyler - Sharman funded a plane ticket from the U.S. to Australia so she could attend the national championships for qualification; a decision that was controversial. Given the opposition of other drivers they gave the ticket back, however, and announced to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team, what you did not succeed.
Lucy Tyler now lives under her birth name in Pennsylvania and works as a trainer.