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]

Stephen Wooldridge

Personal information
Full name	Stephen Brian Wooldridge
Born	(1977-10-17)17 October 1977 Sydney, Australia
Died	14 August 2017(2017-08-14) (aged 39)
Team information
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
2004–2005	ComNet-Senges
2006–2007	SouthAustralia.com–AIS
Medal record Representing  Australia Men's track cycling Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team Pursuit Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Team Pursuit 2006 Melbourne Team pursuit World Championships 2002 Copenhagen Team pursuit 2003 Stuttgart Team pursuit 2004 Melbourne Team pursuit 2006 Bordeaux Team pursuit 2005 Los Angeles Team pursuit

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

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]

References

1. "AIS Athletes at the Olympics". Ausport.gov.au. 9 January 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
2. "Stephen Wooldridge". It's An Honour website. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
3. Homfray, Reece (15 August 2017). "Australian Olympic gold medallist Stephen Wooldridge dies at the age of 39". Adelaide Now. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
4. "Olympic cycling champion Stephen Wooldridge dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
5. 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 (archived)