Shara Marche

Shara Marche
Marche in 2017
Personal information
NicknameShaza
BornShara Gillow
(1987-12-23) 23 December 1987 (age 36)
Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight58 kg (128 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeTime trialist[2]
Amateur team
Sunshine Coast Cycling Club
Professional teams
2011Bizkaia–Durango
2012–2014GreenEDGE–AIS
2015–2016Rabo–Liv
2017–2020FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope[3][4]
Medal record
Women's road cycling
UCI Road World Championships
Representing
GreenEDGE–AIS (2012) / Orica–AIS (2013)
Silver medal – second place 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tuscany Team time trial
Representing Rabo–Liv
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Richmond Team time trial
Gillow competing in the 2012 Olympics time trial in London
Gillow competing in the 2012 Olympics road race in London

Shara Marche (née Gillow; born 23 December 1987) is an Australian former professional cyclist, who competed professionally between 2011 and 2020, for the Bizkaia–Durango, Orica–AIS, Rabo–Liv and FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope teams.[5] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she finished 13th in the time trial and 39th in the road race.

Following her retirement, Marche became a food coach and nutritionist at UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference aoc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Shara Gillow". Orica–AIS. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  3. ^ "FDJ-Nouvelle Aquitaine-Futuroscope". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Uttrup Ludwig shows off new FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope kit". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  5. ^ Tyson, Jackie (3 December 2020). "11 of the biggest names in women's cycling who will retire in 2020". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  6. ^ Abram, Anna-Marie (1 September 2022). "'It's all in the timing' – we catch up with World Tour team SD Worx to find what we can learn from pro-level nutrition tactics". Cycling Weekly. Future plc. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Shara Marche". SD Worx (in Dutch). Stichting Cycling Team for Talents. Retrieved 23 May 2023.