Jonathan Cantwell

Jonathan Cantwell (8 January 1982 – 6 November 2018) was an Australian professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI Professional Continental Team Drapac Cannondale Holistic Development Team.[1]

Jonathan Cantwell
Personal information
Full nameJonathan Cantwell
NicknameJonny
Born(1982-01-08)8 January 1982
Died7 November 2018(2018-11-07) (aged 36)
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter/Lead-out man
Amateur teams
2004–2005Permac Brisot Bibanese
2007Kahala La Grange
Professional teams
2008Jittery Joe's
2009–2011Fly V Australia
2012–2013Team Saxo Bank
2014Drapac Professional Cycling

Career

Cantwell competed as a professional cyclist from 2008 to 2014. Previously, he competed for the Jittery Joe's and Fly V Australia teams.[2] During his career, Cantwell won a stage of the Herald Sun Tour, and two stages of the Tour de Taiwan.[3][4] In 2011, he won the Australian National Criterium Championships.[5][6]

Cantwell joined Team Saxo Bank for the 2012 season.[2] Cantwell made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as a lead-out man for the team's sprinter, Juan José Haedo; Cantwell took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished sixth on the stage.[7] He finished 137th overall in the Tour.[3]

Cantwell left Saxo–Tinkoff at the end of the 2013 season,[8] and joined Drapac Professional Cycling for the 2014 season.[1]

At the end of the 2014 season, Cantwell retired from professional cycling, in order to take up duathlon and triathlon.[3][5] He competed at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series.[5]

Illness and death

In 2017, Cantwell revealed that he had undergone an operation for testicular cancer.[5] 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).[5][6][9][10] Cantwell had two children.[3]

Major results
2007
Tour of Virginia
1st Stages 4 & 5
3rd Overall International Cycling Classic
2008
1st Overall Tour of Murrieta
1st Stage 1
1st Overall International Cycling Classic
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 Tour of Elk Grove
1st Stage 3 San Dimas Stage Race
2nd Overall Tour of Murrieta
1st Stage 2
2nd Overall Tulsa Tough
2nd Goulburn–Sydney
3rd Overall Herald Sun Tour
1st Stage 6 [5]
3rd Overall International Cycling Classic
1st Stage 17
5th Overall Tour of Geelong
1st Stage 1
2010
1st Overall International Cycling Classic
1st Stages 7, 10, 12, 15, 16 & 17
1st Overall Tour of Elk Grove
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st Stage 2 Goulburn–Sydney
1st Stage 3 Joe Martin Stage Race
2nd Overall USA Cycling National Racing Calendar
2nd Overall Tour of Murrieta
1st Stage 2
2nd Overall Tulsa Tough
3rd Overall UCI Oceania Tour
9th Tour of the Battenkill
1st Goulburn to Sydney Classic [11]
2011
1st National Criterium Championships [5]
Tour of the Murray River
1st Stages 1, 9 & 10
3rd Overall Tulsa Tough
1st Stage 1
4th Overall USA Cycling National Racing Calendar
5th Overall Tour of America's Dairyland
1st Stage 5
10th Overall Tour of Elk Grove
2012
Tour de Taiwan
1st Stages 4 & 7 [5]
7th Trofeo Migjorn
2013
2nd Overall World Ports Classic
4th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
2014
6th Overall Herald Sun Tour

Source: [12]

gollark: I assumed you meant "bodily autonomy", i.e. you own your body and get to decide what happens to it, based on you saying something about thinking the average person should support ownership of their own body.
gollark: "Ownership of your body ≠ Ownership of abortion drugs or the right to have a doctor do abortions."
gollark: That could equally apply to abortions though!
gollark: Generally, you punish the actual harm directly.
gollark: Besides, that isn't even particularly true for many of them.

References
  1. "Drapac Cycling announce new signings for 2014". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 2 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. "Cantwell joins Saxo Bank". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  3. "L'ancien cycliste professionnel australien Jonathan Cantwell est décédé à l'âge de 36 ans". Le Soir (in French). 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  4. "Den tidligere Saxo Bank-rytter Jonathan Cantwell er død". TV2 (in Danish). 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  5. Ballinge, Alex (7 November 2018). "Australian former pro Jonathan Cantwell dies at 36". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  6. "Cycling news - Australian champion Jonathan Cantwell dies at age of 36". Eurosport. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  7. Benson, Daniel (4 July 2012). "Greipel wins Tour de France stage in Rouen". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  8. "Team Saxo-Tinkoff (TST) – DEN". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  9. Fundraiser for family set up after death of Jonathan Cantwell
  10. "Former national cycling champion dies". NewsComAu. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  11. "2010 Cantwell lands Fly V an Australian win". Cyclingnews.com.
  12. "Jonathan Cantwell". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 7 November 2018.

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