Oenone Wood

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Oenone Wood

Personal information
Full name	Oenone Lee Wood
Date of birth	September 24, 1980 (1980-09-24) (age 27)
Country	Australia
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	54 kg (120 lb/8.5 st)
Team information
Current team	Team High Road Women
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 September 24, 1980 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is a professional cyclist, who commenced her cycling career in 2001 at the age of 21.

She is a member of professional cycling Team High Road (USA) and the Canberra Cycling Club, and formerly of TeamT-Mobile Professional Womens Cycling Team (GER). She lives in Aranda, a suburb of Canberra.

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 is the current Australian Open Road champion (in the Elite Women's Road Race event).

Oenone is also the official ambassador for the Australian Leukodystrophy Support Group (ALDS - http://www.alds.org.au).

[edit] Career highlights

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

[edit] External links

• Oenone Wood Official website
• Australian Cycling Federation Profile
• Commonwealth Games