Jonathan Cantwell

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

Career

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 (mental illness-related suicide had also claimed the lives of his father and brother). Cantwell had two children.

Major results

Source:

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

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 Goulburn to Sydney Classic

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 2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour

9th Tour of the Battenkill

2011

1st National Criterium Championships

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

5th Grand Prix de Fourmies

7th Trofeo Migjorn

8th Overall World Ports Classic

2013

2nd Overall World Ports Classic

4th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

2014

6th Overall Herald Sun Tour

2015

10th Overall Bay Classic Series

References

External links

Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank profile

1982 births

2018 deaths

Australian male cyclists

Place of birth missing

Place of death missing

Suicides in Australia

2018 suicides