• Source: 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, V Australia, Saxo–Tinkoff and Drapac Professional Cycling 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 Team Saxo Bank 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 Saxo–Tinkoff at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Drapac Professional Cycling 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.


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      References




      External links


      Media related to Jonathan Cantwell at Wikimedia Commons

      Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank profile
      Jonathan Cantwell at Cycling Archives (archived)

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