لورنس من أب أردني وأم بريطانية وولد في الأردن وعاش هناك في وقت الطفولة. بدأ صغيراً كسبّاح على المستوى الوطني وعدّاء. اكمل لورنس اول ترياثلون له في سن ال١٤ واعتبرها رياضته من عمر ال١٦. في عام ٢٠٠٤ بدأ دراسته الجامعية في جامعة لافبرو حيث تخرج في العلوم الرياضية والإدارة عام ٢٠٠٨. وقرر لورنس عندئذ جعل الترياثلون مهنته.
Lawrence is half Jordanian, half British (Jordanian Father and British Mother). He was born in Jordan and lived there as a young child. He started out as a national swimmer and also ran cross-country for the county. He did his first triathlon at the age of 14 and then took it up as his sport at 16. In 2004 he started studying at Loughborough University. After graduating in Sports Science with Management in 2008 he stayed on and decided to train full-time in triathlon and to try to make a career out of the sport.
He competed for Great Britain for a number of years from junior to senior level. In order to fulfill his ambition to represent the country of his birth, he decided to transfer his representation to Jordan. He raced for TFN Race Team in the UK in his early years of triathlon and won lots of races and national titles with them. He competed for GB five times, including the World Student Triathlon Champs in 2006.
At the end of 2007, after a decent season for GB, he got knocked off his bike while on a training camp in South Africa and shattered his femur. This took him out of the sport and almost ended his career. The injury, however, seemed to work as a blessing in disguise and, after a full year away from the sport, he managed to find great motivation whilst rehabbing and decided to have a complete change of focus. He decided to go for the representation change and got back into elite racing at the end of 2009.
Since then he slowly progressed to become a rounded athlete and was successful in ITU, drafting and non-drafting events around the world, from super sprint all the way up to middle-distance racing. He had podium finishes in all distances and looked to progress even further to the top-level of the sport.
In 2009 and 2010 he was based in the South-West of France at a training camp venue (Les Stables www.les-stables.com) where he worked and trained as a guide on the bike, helping with the running of the venue. He joined a local club so he could start racing again and managed to convince them to start up a team to get into French Grand Prix racing. He is now looking to help the team be promoted to division 1, which is the top level of elite team racing in the world.
He is now based at Loughborough University and trains with the British Squad and World Class Development and Podium athletes there. He is coached by the Loughborough University head coach Gavin Smith.
After a close but unsuccessful attempt to qualify for London 2012 he is now aiming to qualify for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016. Qualifying for Rio will not start until 2014 but there are lots of short term goals in the meantime. The major ones being: medaling in the ITU Asian Championships over the next 3 years; medaling in the Asian Games 2014; winning the Pan-Arab Games 2015; and qualifying for the World 5150 Championships and racing in the World Triathlon Series for every year until Rio in 2016.
After quite a few years within triathlon and gaining experience at all levels he is hoping to get triathlon to take off more in the Middle East. He is well connected all over the world and to help his cause he completed his British Triathlon Level 2 coaching certificate and has done a lot of coaching since.
Lawrence believes that an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games teaches a person lot about the sport and themselves. He now knows a lot about all the ways of qualifying and how the ITU system and their various rankings and series work. This gives him a big advantage going into the next 4-year cycle.
He competed for Great Britain for a number of years from junior to senior level. In order to fulfill his ambition to represent the country of his birth, he decided to transfer his representation to Jordan. He raced for TFN Race Team in the UK in his early years of triathlon and won lots of races and national titles with them. He competed for GB five times, including the World Student Triathlon Champs in 2006.
At the end of 2007, after a decent season for GB, he got knocked off his bike while on a training camp in South Africa and shattered his femur. This took him out of the sport and almost ended his career. The injury, however, seemed to work as a blessing in disguise and, after a full year away from the sport, he managed to find great motivation whilst rehabbing and decided to have a complete change of focus. He decided to go for the representation change and got back into elite racing at the end of 2009.
Since then he slowly progressed to become a rounded athlete and was successful in ITU, drafting and non-drafting events around the world, from super sprint all the way up to middle-distance racing. He had podium finishes in all distances and looked to progress even further to the top-level of the sport.
In 2009 and 2010 he was based in the South-West of France at a training camp venue (Les Stables www.les-stables.com) where he worked and trained as a guide on the bike, helping with the running of the venue. He joined a local club so he could start racing again and managed to convince them to start up a team to get into French Grand Prix racing. He is now looking to help the team be promoted to division 1, which is the top level of elite team racing in the world.
He is now based at Loughborough University and trains with the British Squad and World Class Development and Podium athletes there. He is coached by the Loughborough University head coach Gavin Smith.
After a close but unsuccessful attempt to qualify for London 2012 he is now aiming to qualify for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016. Qualifying for Rio will not start until 2014 but there are lots of short term goals in the meantime. The major ones being: medaling in the ITU Asian Championships over the next 3 years; medaling in the Asian Games 2014; winning the Pan-Arab Games 2015; and qualifying for the World 5150 Championships and racing in the World Triathlon Series for every year until Rio in 2016.
After quite a few years within triathlon and gaining experience at all levels he is hoping to get triathlon to take off more in the Middle East. He is well connected all over the world and to help his cause he completed his British Triathlon Level 2 coaching certificate and has done a lot of coaching since.
Lawrence believes that an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games teaches a person lot about the sport and themselves. He now knows a lot about all the ways of qualifying and how the ITU system and their various rankings and series work. This gives him a big advantage going into the next 4-year cycle.
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