Jonathan Cantwell

2011: Australia Australian Masters - criterion

Jonathan Cantwell (born 8 January 1982) is an Australian road cyclist.

Career

Cantwell is an active cyclist since 1997. From 2000 to 2003 he appeared with the Australian national team for the first time in races in Europe, for example at the UCI Road World Championships 2000 in Plouay. From 2004, he started for the amateur team Squadra Bibanese and reached within two years 35 top ten finishes.

Jonathan Cantwell won the 2007 two stages at the Tour of Virginia. The next year he turned professional in the U.S. The Jittery Joe 's Pro Cycling Team. There he won a stage and the overall classification of the Tour of Murrieta, he was first overall at the International Cycling Classic, and he won the Ladera Grand Prix. Since 2009, Cantwell goes for the Australian Continental team Fly V Australia. In his first year there he won a stage ever at the Tour of Murrieta, the San Dimas Stage Race, the International Cycling Classic, Tour of Elk Grove, the Tour of Geelong and he won the Avanti Classic. At the Tour of Atlanta, the Tour of the Murray River and Tour of Tasmania, he was successful in each case three sections and in the first two mentioned it was also the first in the overall standings. His biggest success came Cantwell at the Herald Sun Tour 2009 with two stage wins. By 2011, the Australian was able to collect a total of 58 victories in races in Asia, Australia and North America, especially in mass sprints.

For the 2012 season moved to Cantwell Danish ProTeam Saxo Bank. There he intended to support Juan José Haedo and his brother Lucas Sebastián Sprint Anfahrer, but also get themselves into some races its freedoms.

The first race for Team Saxo Bank denied Cantwell at the Tour Down Under in his native Australia. As Sprint captain of the team he succeeded on the very first stage, a seventh place on the third part of the day he was 14 After losing the fourth and fifth day on the final climb each contact with the field, he finished the World Tour competition with a rank eighth stage in the sprint in Adelaide. In the overall classification, he finished 68th.

In early February he came under the Mallorca Challenge to use, where he completed all three held Trofeos. While he could not intervene in the mass sprint at the Trofeo Palma, he finished in seventh place at the Trofeo Migjorn. In the hilly Trofeo Deia he came in Gruppetto the finish.

Achievements

  • Two stages Herald Sun Tour
  • Australia Australian Masters - criterion
  • Two stages of the Tour de Taiwan

Team

  • 2008 The Jittery Joe 's Pro Cycling Team
  • 2009 Fly V Australia
  • 2010 Fly V Australia
  • 2011 V Australia
  • 2012 Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank
  • 2013 Saxo - Tinkoff
  • 2014 Drapac Cycling
Drapac Professional Cycling UCI ProTour#List of current UCI ProTeams 2012 Tour Down Under 2012 UCI World Tour
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