Cameron Wurf

Cameron Wurf
Wurf at the 2013 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full nameCameron Wurf
Born (1983-08-03) 3 August 1983 (age 41)
Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2007Priority Health–Bissell
2008Cinelli–OPD
Professional teams
2008Team Volksbank
2009Fuji–Servetto
2010Androni Giocattoli
2011Liquigas–Cannondale
2012Champion System
2013–2014Cannondale[1]
2017Cylance Pro Cycling[2]
2020–Team Ineos[3]
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Australia
World Rowing U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Belgrade LM4-
Cameron Wurf at the 2010 Tre Valli Varesine

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.

Career

Rowing

Born 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

Wurf 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

During 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

On 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

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

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 77 — — 128 — — — — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France Has not contested during his career
A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — 99 — — — — — — 95
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Team Ineos announce signing of Cameron Wurf". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Australian Championships Schoolboy Scull History at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d Wurf at World Rowing
  7. ^ "2006 Australian Rowing Championships at Guerin Foster". Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Aubrey, Jane (14 February 2012). "New role for Wurf at Champion System". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  10. ^ Shaw, Rob (13 February 2015). "Wurf to take a year out". The Examiner. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  11. ^ Smith, Adam (7 September 2015). "Time off brings future into focus for Cameron Wurf". The Mercury. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Leitch, Adam (20 September 2022). "Cameron Wurf Wants Super League Triathlon Return After Tough Debut". Super League Triathlon. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Levene, Abby (26 October 2024). "Cam Wurf Talks About His "Embarrassing" Swim and Finishing Seventh in Kona".
  16. ^ "Hepburn and Garfoot claim Oceania time trial title for Orica". sbs.com.au. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2016.

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