Stephen Wooldridge
| 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 | |
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] The method was not made public.
Major results
[edit]- 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]Woolridge had a son and daughter from his first marriage. He had a stepdaughter from his second marriage.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "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". The 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
[edit]- Stephen Wooldridge at Cycling Archives (archived)
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- 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
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Suicides in Australia
- Australian track cyclists
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Olympic gold medalists in cycling
- Sportspeople who died by suicide
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen