Sharon Laws
Sharon Laws (born 7 July 1974 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British cyclist.
Sharon Laws was relatively late professional racing driver, 2008, at the age of 33 years. Born in Kenya, she grew up in England. 2001 returned the qualified biologist to Africa as a United Nations employee. She took part in mountain bike competitions there as well as in guided tours for teams with kayaking, rock climbing and other disciplines. In 2004, she worked at Kew Gardens. In 2006 she took part in the marathon Transalp. Then she went to Australia for work reasons, to work for a mining company.
In Australia, Laws began in earnest with the sport of cycling. In 2007, she won the Tour of Bright and was second in the Australian Championships in the road race. She returned at the request of the British Cycling Federation back to the UK, won the Cheshire Classic and was appointed to the Olympic team. In the road race in the Olympic Games in Beijing, she took 35th place in the autumn of the same year, she was British champion in the time trial.
2010 Sharon Laws won the Tour de Berne and was second in the Tour Cycliste Feminin International de l' Ardeche. 2011, they were each third of the national road championship as well as from Open de Suède Vårgårda with their team time trial. In 2012 she was third in Gracia Orlova and Fifth at Emakumeen Bira. In addition, she won the British title in the road race, but was nominated to her disappointment not for the 2012 Olympics.
In March 2013 Laws took second place in the South African Road Championship, which was held as an open competition. suffered. A few days later she suffered during the Cape Argus Race a bad fall, while numerous fractures and other injuries drew upon.
Team
- 2008 Halfords Bikehut Cycle Team
- 2010-2011 Garmin - Cervélo
- 2012 AA Drink- leontien.nl
- 2013 Lotto Belisol Ladies