Steve Bauer

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Steve Bauer
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Cyclist

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Olympic Summer Games
silver 1984 Street, single
World championships
bronze 1984 Street, singles (professionals)

Steven Todd Bauer (born  June 12, 1959 in St. Catharines ) is a retired Canadian cyclist .

Cycling career

As an amateur, Steve Bauer won the Canadian championships in individual road races three times in a row in 1981, 1982 and 1983. In 1982 he also took second place in the same discipline at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane . His greatest success as an amateur came two years later, when he won the silver medal in the individual road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles behind the American Alexi Grewal and ahead of the Norwegian Dag Otto Lauritzen .

Immediately after the Olympic Games, Bauer switched to the professionals and in the same year finished third in his second professional race at the World Championships in Barcelona . He took part in the Tour de France eleven times and won the first stage of the Tour in 1988 , where he finished fourth in the overall standings and rode in the yellow jersey of the overall leader for five days . In the same year he won the eighth stage of the Tour de Suisse , in whose overall classification he was second. In 1989 he reached fourth place in the Tour de Suisse. A year later, he wore the yellow jersey in the Tour de France for a total of nine days.

In 1989 he won a World Cup race with the championship in Zurich , after having finished third and second at this event in 1985 and 1986, respectively. In 1991 he won two stages of the DuPont Tour . After the admission of professionals to the Olympic Games, he again took part in the 1996 Games in Atlanta , where he reached 41st place. In October of the same year he ended his active career after twelve years as a professional.

Honors

Steve Bauer was awarded the Canadian Meritorious Service Medal in 1994 in recognition of his success and received an honorary doctorate in law from Brock University in the same year . In 2005 he was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fall . In the election for "Canadian Cyclist of the Century" by Canadian Cyclist magazine in 1999, he finished second behind Alison Sydor and in front of William Peden .

Professional

After retiring from his career, Bauer founded Steve Bauer Bike Tours in 1997 , which organizes bike tours in the Canadian region of Niagara and trips to cycling events. In 2008 and 2009 he was the sporting director of the professional team Team RACE Pro and Planet Energy .

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SURNAME Bauer, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Steven Todd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Catharines