However, in 2001, as a first year senior, he won the Overall Track World Cup in his pet event as a junior, the 1 km Time Trial.

Renshaw stayed with FDJeux.com for two seasons, before he moved to Crédit Agricole, with the main aim of using his track bike handling experience to ride as lead-out for Thor Hushovd.

Renshaw showed strong early season form, taking out the Geelong Bay Series Criterium for the second consecutive year.

[17][18] Renshaw's individual highlight of the 2009 season was possibly his second-placed finish on the final stage of the Tour de France, after a lead-out that also gave Cavendish the victory.

This, coincidentally, roughly matched a delayed start to Cavendish's season (due to a tooth infection), and also meant that Renshaw was peaking later for his goal of the World Championships late in the year.

During the sprint finish of stage 11 in the Tour de France, while leading out Cavendish, Renshaw was disqualified and removed from the race for head-butting Garmin–Transitions' leadout man, Julian Dean and unfair blocking of Tyler Farrar by forcing him into the barriers.

[20] Four times Green Jersey winner, Sean Kelly disagreed: "When you consider the first movement from Dean, who was moving from right to left, the head butting was normal...".

[21] Renshaw had a successful 2011 season, winning stage 4 and then the general classification of the Tour of Qatar – beating notable sprinters Tom Boonen, Daniele Bennati and Heinrich Haussler.

[4] Then he went on to reaffirm his reputation as the World's best lead-out man at the Tour de France – helping Mark Cavendish to five stage wins and the Green Jersey.

However Renshaw's season ended in disappointment when he was controversially overlooked for the Australian World Championships team – in what was deemed a sprinter friendly circuit.

Renshaw signed with the Dutch Rabobank squad before the start of the 2012 season, taking the chance to race for himself rather than continuing to lead-out Cavendish.

The mass sprint was an extremely close affair with Renshaw taking the win over fellow Australian Matthew Goss.

[5] In April, Renshaw crashed heavily in the final stretch of the Tour of Turkey's second stage while he was the second man on the road, causing a mass pile-up.

In September, as his leader Cavendish did not feel on form after multiple crashes, Renshaw took sprinting duties at the Tour of Britain and prevailed in the mass gallop of Stage 2.

[31] On 29 September, it was announced that he had joined Cavendish and their former teammate Bernhard Eisel in signing for MTN–Qhubeka – later renamed as Team Dimension Data – for the 2016 season.