Steven Wood

Steven Wood
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Bronze 1992 Barcelona K-4 1000 m
World Championships
Silver 1991 Paris K-4 10000 m
Bronze 1986 Montreal K-2 1000 m

Steven Wood (17 March 1961 – 23 November 1995) was an Australian sprint canoer 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 canoer 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]

References

  1. Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X.