Damien Shaw

Damien Shaw (born 10 July 1984) is a retired Irish road racing cyclist who rode professionally for and . He was the 2015 Irish National Road Race Champion and won a stage on the UCI Europe Tour at the 2017 Tour du Loir et Cher.

Career

Shaw was a tandem pilot at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships and the 2012 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal in 2012 in the road time trial B with James Brown.

He was the Irish National Road Race Champion in 2015, finishing one minute and two seconds ahead of future Grand Tour stage winner Eddie Dunbar. Shaw also finished third in the 2013 edition of the race, and had four second-place finishes in the National Championship Criterium race.

Prior to turning professional in 2016, Shaw worked as a firefighter and combined this with his cycling training. After spells with Lakeside Wheelers and Aquablue, he was riding with Team ASEA Louth when he won the Irish Road Race Championship. He also competed for Louth at the 2015 An Post Rás where he won the County Rider classification.

The second and final victory of his career came on the UCI Europe Tour at the 2017 Tour du Loir et Cher riding for Irish professional team . Shaw was victorious on stage one and held the race lead until the end of stage four. He finished the race in sixth place, within a minute of winner Alexander Kamp and twelve seconds behind fourth-placed finisher and future Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard.

Major results

2011 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships 2012 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships 2013 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 2014 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships 2015

2016 5th Overall Rás Tailteann 2017 5th Overall Rás Tailteann 6th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher 1st Stage 1 2018 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships 4th Overall Rás Tailteann