‘You fought a gallant battle’: Athlete and businessman Adam Steinhardt remembered after health battle

Family have paid tribute to the Commonwealth Games pole vaulter and Adelaide businessman after a long health battle.

SA computer business retailer and former pole vaulter Adam Steinhardt has been remembered following his death.

Former Commonwealth Games athlete and Adelaide businessman Adam Steinhardt has lost his brave six-and-a half-year battle with bowel cancer.

His wife Sacha Steinhardt took to social media to remember her “darling husband” who died in the early hours of Monday morning.

“Stoic to the very end, he insisted on going ahead with our annual summer holiday to Port Rickaby despite his significant health risk,” she wrote.

Adam, who was the managing director of NextByte, a retail chain selling Apple products in the late 1980s, died surrounded by his six children, eight days into the holiday on January 20.

He was only 55 years old.

Adam died surrounded by his loving family at age 55.

SA pole vaulter Adam Steinhardt vaulting during training, 20 Feb 1994.

“After enjoying a day of Adam bliss, watching two NFL games in the caravan, feeling the sand between his toes on the beach, enjoying one of his favourite dinners, having some solid heart to heart conversations and watching a magnificent sunset while listening to one of his favourite albums, the warrior within decided that was a pretty good hand to bow out on,” Ms Steinhardt said.

“The kids and I, and our incredibly supportive families, take solace in knowing he is finally free of the pain and suffering he had endured for far too long and that he died in a happy place.

“You fought a gallant battle my darling. I love you and I am so proud of you. Rest easy and I’ll see you on the flip side.”

A Pembroke old scholar, Adam was the managing director of Next Byte before founding Adelaide-based advertising agency The Kingdom.

Adam, a Pembroke old scholar, represented Australia in two consecutive Commonwealth Games starting in 1990 in pole vault.

He was the managing director of Next Byte till 2005 before re-entering the Apple market in 2012 when he began eRepublic — an Apple reseller.

He founded Adelaide-based advertising agency The Kingdom in 2009, where he continued to work.