Stephen Wooldridge

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.