Stephen Bate

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Stephen Stanley Bate (born 24 August 1977) is a New Zealand–British Paralympic cyclist who competes in tandem races as an athlete with a visual impairment.{{cite web |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Steve_Bate |title=Steve Bate |publisher=britishcycling.org.uk |accessdate=5 September 2016 |archive-date=26 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126033332/https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Steve_Bate |url-status=live}} Since 2014, Bate has been piloted by Adam Duggleby. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the pair won gold in the men's individual pursuit B{{cite web |title=Event Overview - Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit - Medals and Final Ranking |url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/rio-2016/eng/zz/engzz_cycling-track-event-overview-men-s-b-4000m-individual-pursuit.htm |website=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=10 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810210431/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/rio-2016/eng/zz/engzz_cycling-track-event-overview-men-s-b-4000m-individual-pursuit.htm |url-status=live}} and men's road time trial B,{{cite web |url=https://smsprio2016-a.akamaihd.net/_sport/R/i/Rio_2016_PG_Cycling_Road_Results_Book_V1.0.pdf |title=Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Cycling Road Results Book |accessdate=10 August 2022 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927064056/https://smsprio2016-a.akamaihd.net/_sport/R/i/Rio_2016_PG_Cycling_Road_Results_Book_V1.0.pdf |archivedate=27 September 2016}} and bronze in the men's road race B.

In 2018 Bate and Duggleby won the UCI World Para-cycling Tandem B Individual Pursuit and the UCI World Para-cycling Tandem B Individual Time Trial to become double World Champions.{{Cite web |url=https://dataride.uci.ch/Results/iframe/CompetitionResults/51986?disciplineId=8 |title=UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships - Maniago (Road) |access-date=23 November 2018 |archive-date=24 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124055056/https://dataride.uci.ch/Results/iframe/CompetitionResults/51986?disciplineId=8 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://dataride.uci.ch/Results/iframe/CompetitionResults/51987?disciplineId=8 |title=UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships - Rio de Janeiro (Track) |access-date=23 November 2018 |archive-date=24 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124055012/https://dataride.uci.ch/Results/iframe/CompetitionResults/51987?disciplineId=8 |url-status=live}}

The pair are current World Tandem B Time Trial champions, after winning the title in 2021 at the UCI Paracycling World Championships in Cascais, Portugal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rsstiming.com/Resultats/UCIPara/RoadWCh/2021Cascais/doc/C25-ITT-R-MB.pdf |title=UCI 2021 Para-Cycling Road World Championships - Men's B Time Trial |access-date=29 January 2024 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195616/http://www.rsstiming.com/Resultats/UCIPara/RoadWCh/2021Cascais/doc/C25-ITT-R-MB.pdf |url-status=live}}

Cycling career

Bate was introduced to the ideas of para-cycling by friend and Great Britain team member Karen Darke; both of whom have conquered El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Bate has climbed the rock face 3 times including a solo ascent of Zodiac, becoming the first visually impaired person to achieve this. In 2013 he was accepted onto British Cycling’s Paralympic Development Programme and, was teamed up with sight piloted Adam Duggleby. In December 2014, after became the British road and time trial national champion, Bate was advanced from the development programme to the Paralympic Podium Programme, for athletes who British Cycling believe have medal potential at Paralympic level. The next year he made his World Championship debut, competing at the 2015 Championships in Apeldoorn.

In 2015 Bate and Duggleby won their first World Cup medals together. At Maniago in Italy they took silver in the road race and a bronze in the time trial; and followed this with a gold medal in the time trial at the Pietermaritzburg World Cup in South Africa. In July 2016, Bate was named in the Great Britain team to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.

Bate was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.{{London Gazette|issue=61803|supp=y|page=N15|date=31 December 2016}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf |title=New Year's Honours List 2017 |date=30 December 2016 |website=gov.uk |publisher=Government Digital Service |access-date=31 December 2016 |archive-date=31 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231075327/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf |url-status=live}}

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Duggleby and Bate won silver in the men's individual pursuit B.{{cite web |title=Cycling Track – Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit – Finals – Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/CTR/PG2020-_CTR_C73A2_CTRMPURSUIT-03031-----FNL---------.pdf |work=Tokyo 2020 Paralympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |date=25 August 2021 |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=25 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825115526/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/CTR/PG2020-_CTR_C73A2_CTRMPURSUIT-03031-----FNL---------.pdf |url-status=dead}}

At the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, Bate competed with sighted pilot Christopher Latham in the men's pursuit B. The pair set a new world record in qualifying to reach the gold medal final. However, previous world record holders Tristan Bangma and Patrick Bos of the Netherlands retook the world record in their qualifying run and went on to beat Bate and Latham in the final, meaning the British pair won a silver medal.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Emma |title=Schrager and Bate win first GB Paralympics medals after Cox crash |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/cn49g9gq4ddo |access-date=29 August 2024 |work=BBC Sport |date=29 August 2024}}

Personal history

Bate was born (in 1977) and brought up in New Zealand and attended Mount Albert Grammar School, from 1991-1994, before moving to Moray in Scotland in adulthood. He has Retinitis Pigmentosa which has left him with a 10% field of vision.

References

External links

[https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Steve_Bate Steve Bate] at British Cycling
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Category:Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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