Jonathan Cantwell


Jonathan Cantwell was an Australian professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI Professional Continental Team.

Career

Cantwell competed as a professional cyclist from 2008 to 2014. Previously, he competed for the Jittery Joe's and Fly V Australia teams. During his career, Cantwell won a stage of the Herald Sun Tour, and two stages of the Tour de Taiwan. In 2011, he won the Australian National Criterium Championships.
Cantwell joined for the 2012 season. 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. 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 duathlon and triathlon. He competed at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series.

Illness and death

In 2017, Cantwell revealed that he had undergone an operation for testicular cancer. He died on 7 November 2018 at the age of 36; the cause was suicide. Cantwell had two children.

Major results

;2007
;2008
;2009
;2010
;2011
;2012
;2013
;2014
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