Australian cyclist

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 Ins*ute of Sport scholarship holder.

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 Cl*ification 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.

Career highlights

2003UCI Points list – 18th place1st, 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)20041st Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup1st 2004 Road World Cup Rankings1st Criterium Series Tour Down Under AUS1st Australian Open Road Race *le VIC1st Australian Open Road Time Trial *le VIC1st Road World Cup Geelong AUS1st Stage 1 Giro d'Italia Femminile ITA1st Points Cl*ification Giro d'Italia Femminile ITA1st Overall Geelong Tour AUS1st Stage 2 Geelong Tour AUS1st Giro Frazioni ITA1st Trofeo Citta di Rosignano ITA1st Trofeo Museo Alfredo Binda ITA1st Souvenir Magali Pache SUI20051st Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup1st, Le Tour du Grand Montréal1st, Points cl*ification and Stages 1, 3a and 6, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin FRA1st, :Australia Australian Open Road Time Trial *les SA1st, :Australia Australian Criterium *le VIC1st, Bay Series Criteriums VIC1st, Round 21st, Round 31st, Overall Geelong Tour AUS1st, Sprint Cl*ification1st, Stage 21st, Stage 42006 (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung)20071st, Overall, Tour du Grand Montréal CAN (2.1W)1st, Points cl*ification1st, Sprint cl*ification1st, Stage 41st, Stage 520081st Australian Open Road Race *les VIC

References

External links

• Australian Cycling Federation Profile
• Commonwealth Games
• Oenone Wood at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Oenone Wood at Cycling Archives
• Oenone Wood at CQ Ranking
• Oenone Wood at ProCyclingStats