Stephen WOOLDRIDGE

Stephen Wooldridge was a gold medalist with the Australian pursuit team at the 2004 Athina Olympics. Wooldridge won four world titles in team pursuit, in 2002-04 and 2006. He also won a gold medal in the event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Individually he was runner-up in the pursuit at the 2005 Australian Championship. On the roads his only major victory was winning Stage 5 at the 2007 Tour of Siam. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2005 and in 2015 was inducted into the New South Wales Hall of Champions. Wooldridge had great successes but obviously had his own demons, as in August 2017 he took his own life.