Steve Bauer
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| Full name | Steve Bauer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 12, 1959 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
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| Discipline | Road & Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider (retired) Sporting director |
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| 1977-1979 | SCCC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | AMF Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1984 | GS Mengoni | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–1987 | La Vie Claire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | La Suisse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–1995 | 7-Eleven | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Saturn Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008–2012 | Team R.A.C.E. Pro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National Road Race Champion (1981–1983) National Track Point Race Champion (1981-1982)Stage 1 Tour de France (1988) Prologue Dauphiné Libéré (1989) Zürich-Metzgete WC (1989) |
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Steven Todd Bauer, MSM (born June 12, 1959 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a former professional road bicycle racer from Canada. He is an Olympic medalist and winner of several professional races. He is the winner of the first Olympic medal in road cycling for Canada.
Bauer joined the Canadian national cycling team in 1977, competing in team pursuit. He would remain on the national team for seven years, winning the national road race championship in 1981, 1982, and 1983, competing in the Commonwealth Games (1978, 1982), the Pan American Games (1979).
He capped his amateur career with a silver medal in the men's cycling road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. This was the first medal in road cycling for Canada at the Olympics.
Bauer turned professional following the Olympics, and in his second professional race, won the bronze medal at the world cycling championship road race in Barcelona.
Between 1985 and 1995, he competed in 11 Tours de France. He began his professional career in 1985 on the La Vie Claire team of Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond, where he stayed until leaving for Weinmann / La Suisse in 1988. Bauer finished fourth in the 1988 Tour, winning the first stage and wearing the yellow jersey for five days, the second Canadian to wear the jersey. The first was Alex Stieda in 1986, who was also the first North American to wear the yellow jersey.
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