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. 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.