Cameron Wurf (born 3 August 1983) is an Australian professional triathlete and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[4] He was a national champion and Australian representative rower – a 2004 Olympian who won a World Rowing U23 Championships title in 2003.
.JPG) Wurf at the 2013 Giro d'Italia | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Cameron Wurf | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 August 1983 Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Ineos Grenadiers | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Priority Health–Bissell | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Cinelli–OPD | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Team Volksbank | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Fuji–Servetto | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Androni Giocattoli | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Liquigas–Cannondale | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Champion System | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Cannondale[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Cylance Pro Cycling[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2020– | Team Ineos[3] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editRowing
editBorn in Hobart, Wurf was educated at Hutchins School, Hobart where he took up rowing. He won the national Schoolboy Sculling title at the Australian Rowing Championships in 2001.[5]
Aged eighteen Wurf first represented Australia in a coxless four at the 2001 Junior World Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany where the Australian four placed seventh.[6] Then at the 2003 World Rowing U23 Championships in Belgrade he rowed in the lightweight coxless four to a gold medal victory.[6]
From 2004 to 2006 Wurf was selected to represent Tasmania in the men's lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. All three of those Tasmanian crews were victorious[7]
At the 2004 Athens Olympics Wurf contested the men's lightweight double scull and finished with a sixteenth placing.[6][8] He continued to represent Australia at the highest level in rowing until 2006 competing at World Championships. At Gifu 2005 he raced the lightweight double scull to a twelfth place and at Eton Dorney 2006 he stroked a coxless pair to a fourth place in the final. It was Wurf's last representative rowing appearance.[6]
Cycling
editWurf left the Champion System team at the end of the 2012 season – having joined the squad at the start of the season[9] – and joined Cannondale for the 2013 season.[1]
In February 2015, after finishing third in the time trial at the 2015 Oceania Road Championships, Wurf announced that he would take a year out from his professional cycling career, explaining that he felt he had not found his niche in the sport.[10]
Triathlon
editDuring his time off Wurf competed in triathlon, finishing ninth overall and winning the 30–34 age group on his Ironman debut at Whistler in July 2015.[11]
Wurf made his professional triathlon debut at the Ironman Asia-Pacific Championships in Cairns in June 2016.[12] In December 2016 he announced he would race for Cylance Pro Cycling in the 2017 season, combining bike racing with Ironman competitions.[2] However, he only contested the Australian National Road Race Championships for the team.[2]
In 2022, it was announced that Wurf would make his Super League Triathlon debut at SLT Malibu. Wurf finished 18th in the event, after being eliminated in stage 1, however has expressed interest in returning to Super League Triathlon in the future.[13]
Return to cycling
editOn 31 January 2020, Wurf signed with Team Ineos to fill the vacancy left by the recently retired Vasil Kiryienka.[3]
By 2024, he was the oldest rider on the WorldTour circuit.[14] Because of his commitment to competing for Ineos, he competed in fewer Ironmans in 2024, but did compete in the Ironman World Championships, where he placed seventh.[15]
Major results
edit- 2007
- 1st Time trial, Oceania Games
- 1st Chrono Champenois
- 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2011
- 5th Overall Tour of Turkey
- 2012
- 2nd Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
- 4th Overall Tour of China II
- 7th Overall Tour of Japan
- 2014
- 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 8th Overall Tour de Taiwan
- 2015
- Oceania Road Championships
- 3rd
Time trial[16] - 6th Road race
- 3rd
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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77 | — | — | 128 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
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Has not contested during his career | ||||||||||
 Vuelta a España
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— | — | — | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 95 |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ a b Aubrey, Jane (30 August 2012). "Wurf to take lessons learnt into 2013 with Brixia Sport". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ a b c Woodpower, Zeb (6 December 2016). "Wurf's Cylance deal to facilitate his Ironman aspirations". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Team Ineos announce signing of Cameron Wurf". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Australian Championships Schoolboy Scull History at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d Wurf at World Rowing
- ^ "2006 Australian Rowing Championships at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ Guerin, Andrew (28 March 2012). "Olympic Games—Athens 2004". History of Australian Rowing. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
- ^ Aubrey, Jane (14 February 2012). "New role for Wurf at Champion System". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
- ^ Shaw, Rob (13 February 2015). "Wurf to take a year out". The Examiner. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Smith, Adam (7 September 2015). "Time off brings future into focus for Cameron Wurf". The Mercury. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Hepenstall, Ian (12 June 2016). "Swallow and Van Berkel Claim Asia-Pacific Honors". World Triathlon Corporation. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Leitch, Adam (20 September 2022). "Cameron Wurf Wants Super League Triathlon Return After Tough Debut". Super League Triathlon. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ van der Ploeg, Bram (31 October 2024). "Wurf had to sacrifice important Ironmans for INEOS: "I don't want to be one of those riders who..."". Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Levene, Abby (26 October 2024). "Cam Wurf Talks About His "Embarrassing" Swim and Finishing Seventh in Kona".
- ^ "Hepburn and Garfoot claim Oceania time trial title for Orica". sbs.com.au. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
External links
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Media related to Cameron Wurf at Wikimedia Commons
- Cameron Wurf at ProCyclingStats
- Cameron Wurf at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Cameron Wurf profile at Liquigas-Cannondale
- Official website