Cameron Wurf


Cameron Wurf is an Australian professional triathlete and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam. He was a national champion and Australian representative rower - a 2004 Olympian who won a World Rowing U23 Championships title in 2003.

Career

Rowing career

Born in Hobart, Wurf was educated at Hutchins School, Hobart where he took up rowing. He won the national Schoolboy Sculling title at the Australian Rowing Championships in 2001.
Aged eighteen Wurf first represented Australia in a coxless four at the 2001 Junior World Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany where the Australian four placed seventh. Then at the 2003 World Rowing U23 Championships in Belgrade he rowed in the lightweight coxless four to a gold medal victory.
From 2004 to 2006 Wurf was selected to represent Tasmania in the men's lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. All three of those Tasmanian crews were victorious
At the 2004 Athens Olympics Wurf contested the men's lightweight double scull and finished with a sixteenth placing. He continued to represent Australia at the highest level in rowing till 2006 competing at World Championships. At Gifu 2005 he raced the lightweight double scull to a twelfth place and at Eton Dorney 2006 he stroked a coxless pair to a fourth place in the final. It was Wurf's last representative rowing appearance.

Cycling career

Wurf left the team at the end of the 2012 season – having joined the squad at the start of the season – and joined for the 2013 season.
In February 2015, after finishing third in the time trial at the 2015 Oceania Road Championships, Wurf announced that he would take a year out from his professional cycling career, explaining that he felt he had not found his niche in the sport. During his time off Wurf competed in triathlon, finishing ninth overall and winning the 30-34 age group on his Ironman debut at Whistler in July 2015.
On 31 January 2020, Wurf signed with to fill the vacancy left by the recently retired Vasil Kiryienka.

Major results

;2007
;2011
;2012
;2014
;2015

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour2010201120122013
Giro d'Italia77——128
Tour de France————
Vuelta a España———99

—Did not compete
DNFDid not finish

Triathlete

Wurf made his professional triathlon debut at the Ironman Asia-Pacific Championships in Cairns in June 2016. In December 2016 he announced he would race for in the 2017 season, combining bike racing with Ironman competitions.