Stephen Wooldridge
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]
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Full name | Stephen Brian Wooldridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sydney, Australia | 17 October 1977|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 August 2017 39) | (aged|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road and track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2004–2005 | ComNet-Senges | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006–2007 | SouthAustralia.com-AIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 died by suicide on 14 August 2017.[4] The method was not made public.
Major results
- 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
Woolridge had a son and daughter from his first marriage. He had a stepdaughter from his second marriage.[5]
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References
- "AIS Athletes at the Olympics". Ausport.gov.au. 9 January 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- "Stephen Wooldridge". It's An Honour website. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- Homfray, Reece (15 August 2017). "Australian Olympic gold medallist Stephen Wooldridge dies at the age of 39". Adelaide Now. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- "Olympic cycling champion Stephen Wooldridge dies". Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- sport, Guardian (15 August 2017). "Stephen Wooldridge, Australian Olympic cycling champion, dies aged 39". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
External links
- Stephen Wooldridge at Cycling Archives
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