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

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, , and teams. During his career, Cantwell won a stage of the

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, and two stages of the

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. In 2011, he won the Australian National Criterium Championships.

Career

Cantwell joined for the 2012 season. Cantwell made his Grand Tour début at the

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, where he was earmarked as a lead-out man for the team's sprinter,

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; Cantwell took his first top ten placing on

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, 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

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and

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. He competed at the

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Illness and death

In 2017, Cantwell revealed that he had undergone an operation for

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. 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 :

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::1st Stages 4 & 5 : 3rd Overall

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;2008 : 1st Overall Tour of Murrieta ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Overall

;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

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: 1st Stage 3 San Dimas Stage Race : 2nd Overall Tour of Murrieta ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

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: 2nd Goulburn–Sydney : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 17 : 5th Overall Tour of Geelong ::1st Stage 1 ;2010 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 7, 10, 12, 15, 16 & 17 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st

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: 1st Stage 3

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: 2nd Overall

USA Cycling National Racing Calendar The USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC) is an annual competition of road bicycle racing events held in the United States and sponsored by USA Cycling. The NRC includes a men's and women's individual and team rankings based on points awar ...

: 2nd Overall Tour of Murrieta ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

: 3rd Overall

2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour The 2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour was the sixth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 11 October 2009 with the Herald Sun Tour and ended on 31 January 2010 with the Tour of Wellington. The points leader, based on the cumulative results ...

: 9th

Tour of the Battenkill The Tour of the Battenkill was a single-day road cycling race held in the Battenkill valley, in Washington County, New York Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,302. The ...

;2011 : 1st MaillotAustralia

National Criterium Championships : Tour of the Murray River ::1st Stages 1, 9 & 10 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 4th Overall

: 5th Overall Tour of America's Dairyland ::1st Stage 5 : 10th Overall

;2012 :

::1st Stages 4 & 7 : 5th

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: 7th Trofeo Migjorn : 8th Overall World Ports Classic ;2013 : 2nd Overall World Ports Classic : 4th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom ...

;2014 : 6th Overall

;2015 : 10th Overall

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cantwell, Jonathan 1982 births 2018 deaths Australian male cyclists Place of birth missing Place of death missing Suicides in Australia 2018 suicides Australian triathletes 21st-century Australian sportsmen