Stephen Brian Wooldridge (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.
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. He was inducted into the NSW Hall of Champions in 2015.
Wooldridge committed suicide on 14 August 2017 at the age of 39.
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.
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