Stephen Wooldridge

Stephen Wooldridge

To person
Full name	Stephen Brian Wooldridge
Date of birth	17th October 1977
date of death	August 14, 2017
nation	Australia
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	2007
Most important successes
Olympic games 2004 - team pursuit
Last updated: January 2, 2019

Stephen Brian Wooldridge , OAM (born October 17, 1977 in Sydney , † August 14, 2017 ) was an Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

Stephen Wooldridge began cycling as a child, but initially could not achieve international success. After missing out on participation in the Junior World Championships, he focused on university studies. He earned a bachelor's degree in technology management in manufacturing. Looking ahead to the 2000 Summer Olympics in his hometown, Wooldridge returned to competitive sports and was included in the preliminary roster for the Games. By downsizing the team from nine to seven athletes, however, he fell out of the nomination again.

Wooldridge did not let himself be demotivated by the missed participation in the Olympics and was for the first time 2002 track cycling world champion in the team pursuit . In 2003 and 2004 he was able to defend this title with the Australian national team; In 2004, the Australian four-man also became Olympic champion in Athens . In the same year he went to the German cycling team Comnet-Senges . At the track cycling world championships in Los Angeles in 2005 , he won the bronze medal. From 2006 to 2007 Wooldridge drove for the Australian Continental Team Southaustralia.com . In 2006 he became world champion in team pursuit for the fourth time , and at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne he won the silver medal in the same discipline.

Miscellaneous

After the end of his active career, Wooldridge took on various functions in the Australian (2007 to 2013) as well as in the Oceanic cycling association, campaigned for the next generation of cyclists and was involved in setting up a center for cancer patients as an ambassador for the organization "Ride for Life".

In 2015 he was inducted into the New South Wales Hall of Champions .

Wooldridge died of suicide in 2017 at the age of 39 . He left a son and a daughter.

successes

2001

• Australian Champion - Two-Man Team Driving (with Mark Renshaw )

2002

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson , Luke Roberts and Brett Lancaster )

2003

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Graeme Brown and Brett Lancaster)

2004

• Olympic Champion Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson , Graeme Brown , Luke Roberts , Bradley McGee and Brett Lancaster )
• World Champion Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Luke Roberts and Ashley Hutchinson )

2005

• World Championship Team Pursuit (with Matthew Goss , Ashley Hutchinson and Mark Jamieson )

2006

• World Champion Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Mark Jamieson and Matthew Goss )
• Commonwealth Games Team Pursuit (with Peter Dawson, Mark Jamieson and Matthew Goss )

2007

• 5th stage, Tour of Siam

Teams

• 2004–2005: Comnet-Senges
• 2006-2007: Southaustralia.com-AIS

Web links

• Stephen Wooldridge in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Stephen Wooldridge in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Olympic cycling champion Stephen Wooldridge dies. In: thecourier.com.au. August 15, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Olympic champion died at the age of only 39. WeltN24 , August 15, 2017, accessed August 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Olympic cycling champion Stephen Wooldridge dies. In: smh.com.au. August 15, 2017, accessed January 2, 2019 .