Oenone Wood

Oenone Wood
Personal information
Full name Oenone Lee Wood
Born 24 September 1980
Newcastle, Australia
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb; 8.8 st)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Major wins
2004 Geelong World Cup
2004 World Cup Series
2005 World Cup Series
2006 Commonwealth Games
Individual Time Trial
Infobox last updated on
27 February 2008

Oenone Wood, born on 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). She lives in Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle.

Her greatest success as a road cyclist has arguably been in Australian tours, including the Australian Criterium, Bay Series Criterium and the Geelong Tour, with some 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. 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 was the 2008 Australian Open Road champion (in the Elite Women's Road Race event).

Career highlights

2003
UCI Points list - 18th place
1st, Grand Prix Cavrie (Ita)
3rd, Fleche 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 UCI Women's Road World Cup
1st 2004 Road World Cup Rankings
1st Criterium Series Tour Down Under AUS
1st Australian Open Road Race Title VIC
1st 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 - UCI Women's Road World Cup Points Championship
1st, Points classification and Stages 1, 3a and 6, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin FRA
1st,  Australia Australian Open Road Time Trial Titles SA
1st,  Australia 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

  1. "AIS Athletes at the Olympics". Ausport.gov.au. 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2012-01-21.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Nicole Cooke
World Cup Overall Points Champion
2004, 2005
Succeeded by
Nicole Cooke