Stephen Wooldridge
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Brian Wooldridge |
| Born | 17 October 1977 Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 14 August 2017 (aged 39) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road and track |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2004–2005 | ComNet-Senges |
| 2006–2007 | SouthAustralia.com–AIS |
Medal record | |
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Stephen Brian Wooldridge OAM (17 October 1977 – 14 August 2017) was an Australian racing cyclist, an Olympic and four-time world champion on the track. He was born in Sydney. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[1]
In 2005, Wooldridge was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2] He was inducted into the NSW Hall of Champions in 2015.[3]
Wooldridge committed suicide on 14 August 2017 at the age of 39.[4]
Major results
[edit | edit source]- 2002
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1st, Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster and Luke Roberts)
- Commonwealth Games, Manchester, England
- 1st, Team Pursuit
- 2002 Track Cycling World Cup
- 2nd, Team Pursuit, Sydney
- 2003
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1st, Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Brett Lancaster, Graeme Brown and Luke Roberts)
- 2004
- Olympic Games, Athens, Greece
- 1st, Team Pursuit
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Melbourne, Australia
- 1st, Team Pursuit (with Luke Roberts, Peter Dawson and Ashley Hutchinson)
- 2004 Track Cycling World Cup
- 3rd, Team Pursuit, Manchester
- 2005
- National Track Championships, Adelaide
- 2nd, Team Pursuit
- 2nd, Pursuit
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Los Angeles, United States
- 3rd, Team Pursuit
- 2006
- Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, Australia
- 2nd, Team Pursuit
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Bordeaux, France
- 1st, Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Matt Goss and Mark Jamieson)
- 2007
- 1st, Stage 5, Tour of Siam
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Woolridge had a son and daughter from his first marriage. He had a stepdaughter from his second marriage.[5]
References
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External links
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Categories:
- 1977 births
- 2017 suicides
- 2017 deaths
- Australian male cyclists
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic cyclists for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Cyclists from Sydney
- Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Australian track cyclists
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Olympic gold medalists in cycling
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian sportspeople who committed suicide
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling