Oenone Wood
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Oenone Wood (born 24 September 1980 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is a retired professional cyclist, who commenced her cycling career in 2001 at the age of 21. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[1]
She was a member of professional cycling Team Columbia Women (USA) and the Canberra Cycling Club, and formerly of the T-Mobile Professional Women's Cycling Team (GER) and Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung. She lives in Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle.
Oenone achieved success as a road cyclist in Australia, including the Bay Criterium Series, and the Geelong Tour.
She had great success overseas, particularly winning stages of the Giro d'Italia Femminile (ITA) and the Points Classification for the Giro d'Italia Femminile in 2004 and 2005, as well winning the UCI Women's Road World Cup series in 2004 and 2005. In the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's Road race she was in the leading group with fellow Australian Sara Carrigan, and when Carrigan and Judith Arndt broke away in the final lap to win the gold and silver medals, Wood had to sprint for the bronze medal with Olga Slyusareva of Russia and Nicole Cooke of Great Britain, coming 4th overall in the race.
She won the Women's Time Trial at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, also winning the silver medal in the Women's Road Race, behind fellow Australian Natalie Bates.
She was the 2004 and 2008 Australian Open Road champion (in the Elite Women's Road Race event).
In 2016, she was inducted into Cycling Australia Hall of Fame.[2]
Career highlights
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- 2003
- UCI Points list – 18th place
- 1st, Grand Prix Cavrie (Ita)
- 3rd, Flèche Wallonne (World Cup)
- 6th, Primavera Rosa (World Cup)
- 3rd overall and 1 stage win, Trophee d'Or (cat. 2)
- 4th overall, Giro della Toscana (cat. 1)
- 7th overall, Castilla y Leon Tour (cat. 1)
- 2004
- 1st File:Womens World Cup leaders jersey.png Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 1st 2004 Road World Cup Rankings
- 1st Criterium Series Tour Down Under AUS
- 1st File:MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Open Road Race Title VIC
- 1st File:MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Open Road Time Trial Title VIC
- 1st Road World Cup Geelong AUS
- 1st Stage 1 Giro d'Italia Femminile ITA
- 1st Points Classification Giro d'Italia Femminile ITA
- 1st Overall Geelong Tour AUS
- 1st Stage 2 Geelong Tour AUS
- 1st Giro Frazioni ITA
- 1st Trofeo Citta di Rosignano ITA
- 1st Trofeo Museo Alfredo Binda ITA
- 1st Souvenir Magali Pache SUI
- 2005
- 1st File:Womens World Cup leaders jersey.png Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 1st, Tour du Grand Montréal
- 1st, Points classification and Stages 1, 3a and 6, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin FRA
- 1st, Template:Flagu Australian Open Road Time Trial Titles SA
- 1st, Template:Flagu Australian Criterium Title VIC
- 1st, Bay Series Criteriums VIC
- 1st, Round 2
- 1st, Round 3
- 1st, Overall Geelong Tour AUS
- 1st, Sprint Classification
- 1st, Stage 2
- 1st, Stage 4
- 2006 (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung)
- 2007
- 1st, Overall, Tour du Grand Montréal CAN (2.1W)
- 1st, Points classification
- 1st, Sprint classification
- 1st, Stage 4
- 1st, Stage 5
- 2008
- 1st Australian Open Road Race Titles VIC
References
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External links
- Australian Cycling Federation Profile
- Commonwealth Games
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Australian female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic cyclists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Sportspeople from Newcastle, New South Wales
- Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
- ACT Academy of Sport alumni
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Australian expatriates in Germany
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling