Jonathan Cantwell (8 January 1982 – 6 November 2018) was an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2014 for the

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, , and teams. During his career, Cantwell won a stage of the

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ...

, and two stages of the

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. In 2011, he won the Australian National Criterium Championships.

Career

Cantwell joined for the 2012 season. Cantwell made his

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début at the

2012 Tour de France The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started in the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July. The Tour consisted of 21 stages, inc ...

, where he was earmarked as a lead-out man for the team's sprinter,

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; Cantwell took his first top ten placing on

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, when he finished sixth on the stage. He finished 137th overall in the Tour. Cantwell left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season. At the end of the 2014 season, Cantwell retired from professional cycling, in order to take up

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and

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. He competed at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series.

Illness and death

In 2017, Cantwell revealed that he had undergone an operation for

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. He died on 7 November 2018 at the age of 36; the cause was suicide (mental illness-related suicide had also claimed the lives of his father and brother). Cantwell had two children.

Major results

Source: ;2007 :

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::1st Stages 4 & 5 : 3rd Overall

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;2008 : 1st Overall Tour of Murrieta ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Overall

;2009 : 1st Overall Tour of the Murray River ::1st Stages 1, 3 & 7 : 1st Overall Tour of Atlanta ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 : Tour of Tasmania ::1st Stages 1, 3 & 10 : 1st Stage 3

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: 1st Stage 3 San Dimas Stage Race : 2nd Overall Tour of Murrieta ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

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: 2nd Goulburn–Sydney : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 17 : 5th Overall Tour of Geelong ::1st Stage 1 ;2010 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 7, 10, 12, 15, 16 & 17 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Goulburn to Sydney Classic : 1st Stage 3

Joe Martin Stage Race Joe Martin Stage Race is a road cycling stage race held annually in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is part of the UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the ...

: 2nd Overall

USA Cycling National Racing Calendar The USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC) is an annual competition of road bicycle racing events held in the United States and sponsored by USA Cycling. The NRC includes a men's and women's individual and team rankings based on points awa ...

: 2nd Overall Tour of Murrieta ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

: 3rd Overall

2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour The 2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour was the sixth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 11 October 2009 with the Herald Sun Tour and ended on 31 January 2010 with the Tour of Wellington. The points leader, based on the cumulative results ...

: 9th

Tour of the Battenkill The Tour of the Battenkill is a single-day road cycling race held in the Battenkill valley, in Washington County, New York. It is 62.2 miles long, includes many hills, dirt and gravel road sections and as of 2011 it has been held seven times. In ...

;2011 : 1st MaillotAustralia

National Criterium Championships : Tour of the Murray River ::1st Stages 1, 9 & 10 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 4th Overall

: 5th Overall Tour of America's Dairyland ::1st Stage 5 : 10th Overall

;2012 :

::1st Stages 4 & 7 : 5th

Grand Prix de Fourmies The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. Since 2005 it has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which we ...

: 7th Trofeo Migjorn : 8th Overall

World Ports Classic The World Ports Classic was a European two-day cycle race held between the port cities of Rotterdam and Antwerp, organized by ASO as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was held between 2012 and 2015. In all years except for 2013, the r ...

;2013 : 2nd Overall

: 4th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a ...

;2014 : 6th Overall

;2015 : 10th Overall

Bay Classic Series The Bay Classic Series (currently running as the Lexus of Blackburn Bay Crits) is a road cycling race held annually in and around Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia. The race consists of both a men's and a women's competition over three stage ...

References

External links

Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank profile
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