Oenone Wood

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.

She was a member of professional cycling (USA) and the Canberra Cycling Club, and formerly of the T-Mobile Professional Women's Cycling Team (GER) and . 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.

Career highlights

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 2004 Road World Cup Rankings 1st Criterium Series Tour Down Under AUS

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, Tour du Grand Montréal 1st, Points classification and Stages 1, 3a and 6, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin FRA 1st, Australian Open Road Time Trial Titles SA 1st, 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