Steven Wood

Steven Wood
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona K-4 1000 m
Canoe Sprint World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1991 Paris K-4 10000 m
Bronze medal – third place 1986 Montreal K-2 1000 m
Men's canoe marathon
Canoe Marathon World Championships
Gold medal – first place 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]

  1. ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X.
  2. ^ Frith, David (2001). Silence of the Heart – Cricket Suicides. Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 184018406X.
  3. ^ "Steve Wood". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 January 2021.