Steven Wood
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Australia
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| Men's canoe sprint | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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1992 Barcelona | K-4 1000 m |
| Canoe Sprint World Championships | ||
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1991 Paris | K-4 10000 m |
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1986 Montreal | K-2 1000 m |
| Men's canoe marathon | ||
| Canoe Marathon World Championships | ||
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1992 Brisbane | K-2 marathon |
Steven Wood (17 March 1961 – 23 November 1995) was an Australian sprint and marathon canoeist who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.
Wood won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1991) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 1986).
He was married to Anna Wood, a Dutch-born sprint canoeist who won two bronze medals at the Summer Olympics, one for Australia and one for the Netherlands. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1988 and 1991–1992.[1] Wood committed suicide in Brisbane by hanging himself, possibly due to a recurring elbow injury.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X.
- ^ Frith, David (2001). Silence of the Heart – Cricket Suicides. Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 184018406X.
- ^ "Steve Wood". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Sports-reference.com profile
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