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Australian road cyclist

Shara Marche

Marche in 2017

Personal information

Nickname

Shaza

Born

Shara Gillow
(1987-12-23) 23 December 1987 (age 36)
Nambour, Queensland, Australia

Height

175 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

58 kg (128 lb)

Team information

Current team

Retired

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Rider type

Time trialist

Amateur team

Sunshine Coast Cycling Club

Professional teams

2011

Bizkaia–Durango

2012–2014

GreenEDGE–AIS

2015–2016

Rabo–Liv

2017–2020

FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope

Medal record

Women's road cycling

UCI Road World Championships
Representing GreenEDGE–AIS (2012) / Orica–AIS (2013)
	2012 Valkenburg	Team time trial
	2013 Tuscany	Team time trial
Representing Rabo–Liv
	2015 Richmond	Team time trial

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. 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.

Personal

Marche was born on 23 December 1987 in Nambour, Queensland. Her father David Gillow is an Olympic cyclist who represented Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She attended Nambour Christian College then was home schooled and obtained a Bachelor of Language from Western Sydney Institute. As of 2012, she lived in Belli Park, Queensland. Beyond cycling, Marche is also a surfer.

In 2019, she married Nicolas Marche, then a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Team Sunweb. The couple live in Besançon, France, and have a son, born in 2022.

Cycling

Marche did not become a professional cyclist until she was twenty years old, taking inspiration from her father to get involved with the sport.

Marche was coached by Martin Barras from 2010. Her coach said she "was one of the most physically gifted cyclists he had seen, but tended to be too conservative and protective when competing." Her primary training base is in Italy, with a secondary training base in Australia. She is a member of the Sunshine Coast Cycling Club. She has cycling scholarships with the Queensland Academy of Sport and Australian Institute of Sport. She was a member of the GreenEDGE–AIS professional cycling team.

Marche finished 4th at the 2011 Memorial Davide Fardelli in Rogno, Italy. She finished 3rd at the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen in Germany. She finished 9th overall at the 2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile in Italy. She finished 8th at the 2012 La visite chrono du Gatineau in Canada. She finished 7th at the 2012 Prologue GP Elsy Jacobs in Luxembourg. She finished 1st in the individual time trial and 2nd in the road event at the 2012 Oceania Road Championships in Queenstown, New Zealand. She finished 2nd at the 2012 Women's Tour of New Zealand. She finished 1st in the individual time trial event at the 2012 Australian Road Championships in Learmonth, Australia.

Marche was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the road race and individual time trial. Prior to the Olympics, she raced with Australia's GreenEDGE–AIS team in the Giro Donne. She finished 13th in the time trial and 39th in the road race.

In September 2016 it was announced that Marche would join FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope for the 2017 season. She spent the rest of her professional career with the team, announcing her retirement in September 2020.