Stephen Pate

Stephen Pate ( born January 25, 1964 in Melbourne, Australia ) is an Australian former racing driver and World Champion.

Stephen Pate was an all-rounder on the velodrome: 1988 in Ghent, he became world champion in track sprint. 1990 in Maebashi, he was third in the World Cup Sprint 1992 second in the Keirin in Valencia, 1993 in Hamar second in tandem and 1996 Manchester runner-up in Madison ( with Scott McGrory ).

1993 Pate won with Tony Davis, the Six Days of Noumea. In 1998 he was Australian champion in Madison ( with Matthew Allan ). He set world records in 1000, 500 and 200 m.

Stephen Pate was in his playing days as " madman on the bike ." He stabbed through clothing and hairstyles out, drank alcohol, took drugs and was eventually tested positive for steroids in 1991, after his world championship bronze medal was stripped of the sprint. In Japan, however, where he participated for several years in the keirin series, he was very popular because of its unconventional nature. His doping and other offenses meant that he was not particularly popular in the Australian Cycling Federation and has never been nominated for the Olympic Games.

After Pate in 2000 was not nominated as Australian champion for the Olympics in his home country, he stepped back from cycling. In the result, there were multiple charges against him for drunkenness and violence against his wife, so he had to spend in prison for some time.

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