Cameron Wurf (born 3 August 1983) is an Australian professional

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and

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, who currently rides for

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. He was a national champion and Australian representative rower – a 2004 Olympian who won a

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title in 2003.

Career

Rowing

Born in Hobart, Wurf was educated at

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, Hobart where he took up rowing. He won the national Schoolboy Sculling title at the

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in 2001. Aged eighteen Wurf first represented Australia in a

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at the 2001

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in Duisburg, Germany where the Australian four placed seventh.Wurf at World Rowing
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in Belgrade he rowed in the lightweight coxless four to a gold medal victory. From 2004 to 2006 Wurf was selected to represent Tasmania in the men's lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the

. All three of those Tasmanian crews were victorious At the

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Wurf contested the men's lightweight

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and finished with a sixteenth placing. He continued to represent Australia at the highest level in rowing until 2006 competing at World Championships. At Gifu 2005 he raced the lightweight double scull to a twelfth place and at Eton Dorney 2006 he stroked a

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to a fourth place in the final. It was Wurf's last representative rowing appearance.

Cycling

Wurf left the team at the end of the 2012 season – having joined the squad at the start of the season – and joined for the 2013 season. In February 2015, after finishing third in the time trial at the 2015 Oceania Road Championships, Wurf announced that he would take a year out from his professional cycling career, explaining that he felt he had not found his niche in the sport.

Triathlon

During his time off Wurf competed in triathlon, finishing ninth overall and winning the 30–34 age group on his Ironman debut at Whistler in July 2015. Wurf made his professional triathlon debut at the Ironman Asia-Pacific Championships in Cairns in June 2016. In December 2016 he announced he would race for in the 2017 season, combining bike racing with Ironman competitions. However, he only contested the Australian National Road Race Championships for the team. In 2022, it was announced that Wurf would make his Super League Triathlon debut at SLT Malibu. Wurf finished 18th in the event, after being eliminated in stage 1, however has expressed interest in returning to Super League Triathlon in the future.

Return to cycling

On 31 January 2020, Wurf signed with to fill the vacancy left by the recently retired

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Major results

;2007 : 1st Time trial,

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: 1st Chrono Champenois : 9th Overall

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;2011 : 5th Overall

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;2012 : 2nd Overall

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: 4th Overall

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II : 7th Overall

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;2014 : 2nd Overall

: 8th Overall

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;2015 : Oceania Road Championships ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Time trial ::6th Road race

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Cameron Wurf profile
at Liquigas-Cannondale * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wurf, Cameron 1983 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists from Tasmania Sportspeople from Hobart Olympic rowers of Australia Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Australian male triathletes Australian male rowers