Cameron Wurf
Australian rower, road cyclist, and triathlete
About Cameron Wurf
Born 1983. Cameron Wurf is an Australian track cyclist, sport cyclist, rower and triathlete.
Cameron Wurf (born 3 August 1983) is an Australian professional triathlete and road cyclist, who last rode 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 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.
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 until 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. – and joined for the 2013 season.
Triathlon 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.
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.
Return to cycling On 31 January 2020, Wurf signed with to fill the vacancy left by the recently retired Vasil Kiryienka. Because of his commitment to competing for Ineos, he competed in fewer Ironmans in 2024, but did compete in the Ironman World Championships, where he placed seventh.
Major results
2007 1st Time trial, Oceania Games 1st Chrono Champenois 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour 2011 5th Overall Tour of Turkey 2012 2nd Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake 4th Overall Tour of China II 7th Overall Tour of Japan 2014 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour 8th Overall Tour de Taiwan 2015 Oceania Road Championships
6th Road race
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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Who is Cameron Wurf?
Australian rower, road cyclist, and triathlete
When was Cameron Wurf born?
Cameron Wurf was born on 3 August 1983 in Hobart.
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Cameron Wurf is a track cyclist, sport cyclist, rower and triathlete.
What nationality is Cameron Wurf?
Cameron Wurf is Australian.
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