One-day races and Classics Steven Todd Bauer, MSM (born June 12, 1959) is a retired professional road bicycle racer from Canada.

He won the first Olympic medal in road cycling for Canada and until 2022 he was the only Canadian to win an individual stage of the Tour de France (Ryder Hesjedal, Svein Tuft and Alex Stieda had been part of winning team time trial squads).

He capped his amateur career with a silver medal in the men's cycling road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

The finish was so close that the officials had to study the photo-finish for more than ten minutes before Planckaert was finally declared the winner.

For his 1993 Paris–Roubaix campaign, he had a bike built by the Merckx factory with "an extreme rearward seat position" to test his theory that it would "engag[e] the quadriceps more efficiently" and with it "more power to the pedals".

[8] In 1994, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (civil division) for having "paved the way for Canada's coming generations of cycling enthusiasts".

[11] Bauer also participated in the Red Bull Road Rage held on Tuna Canyon, Malibu, California.