Steve Bauer

Steve Bauer, born Steven Todd Bauer on 12 June 1959, is a retired Canadian professional road cyclist. He joined the Canadian national team in 1977 and won the national road race championship in 1981, 1982 and 1983. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he took silver in the men's road race, the first Olympic road cycling medal for Canada, and in his second professional race he added a bronze medal at the world championship road race. Between 1985 and 1995 he rode eleven Tours de France, won the first stage of the 1988 race and wore the yellow jersey for five days that year while finishing fourth overall. In 1990 he lost Paris-Roubaix by less than a centimetre, the closest finish in the history of the race. After retiring in 1996 he co-founded a bike tour business and later helped run professional cycling teams.