1. Melissa Hoskins was an Australian track and road racing cyclist.
25 Facts About Melissa Hoskins
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Melissa Hoskins topped the general classification in the 2012 Tour of Chongming Island.
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Melissa Hoskins was a member of the Australian track cycling team pursuit team that finished in fourth place at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Melissa Hoskins died on 31 December 2023 after being struck by a vehicle driven by her husband, cyclist Rohan Dennis.
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Melissa Hoskins was born on 24 February 1991 in Kalamunda, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
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Melissa Hoskins attended Walliston Primary School before going to high school at Carmel Adventist College in Western Australia.
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Melissa Hoskins then went to Murdoch University, where she pursued a Bachelor of Sports Science.
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Melissa Hoskins started track cycling when she was fifteen years old following participation at a Western Australian Institute of Sport talent identification event.
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Melissa Hoskins started competitive cycling when she was 16 years old.
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Melissa Hoskins was awarded a cycling scholarship by the Australian Institute of Sport and the Western Australian Institute of Sport.
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Melissa Hoskins was a member of Northern Districts Cycling Club.
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Melissa Hoskins was coached by Gary Sutton and Darryl Benson.
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Melissa Hoskins finished 3rd in the team pursuit at the 2011 Beijing World Cup in Beijing.
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Melissa Hoskins finished 1st in the team pursuit, 2nd in the omnium, and 3rd in the individual pursuit at the 2011 Australian Track Nationals in Sydney.
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Melissa Hoskins finished 2nd in the team pursuit at the 2012 Track World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
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Melissa Hoskins finished 1st in the team pursuit and 4th in the individual pursuit at the 2012 Australian Track Nationals in Sydney, Australia.
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Melissa Hoskins was the team's leader in the event but her gate failed to open properly.
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Melissa Hoskins earned a silver medal in the scratch race at the 2012 World Championships.
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Melissa Hoskins competed for Australia with teammates Annette Edmondson and Josephine Tomic in the women's team pursuit at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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At the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Melissa Hoskins was part of the Australian quartet that won gold in the team pursuit, defeating a Great Britain team in the final that had taken the rainbow jersey in the previous four World Championships and that had been undefeated in major competitions during that period.
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Melissa Hoskins subsequently described this performance as the defining result of her career.
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Melissa Hoskins returned to the Olympic Games as part of the Australian team in the team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics: the team entered the Olympics as one of the expected challengers for the gold medal.
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Melissa Hoskins rode in qualification and the first round proper but was dropped for the final, where Australia secured fifth overall.
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Melissa Hoskins won the first and third stages and topped the general classification in the 2012 Tour of Chongming Island, a category 2.1 stage race, and followed this by finishing second in the one-day Tour of Chongming Island World Cup.
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On 30 December 2023, Melissa Hoskins was struck by a grey ute on Avenel Gardens Road, Medindie, an inner northern suburb of Adelaide, and died a day later from her injuries in hospital.