Melissa Hoskins

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Melissa Hoskins Road cycling
Melissa Hoskins (2012)
Melissa Hoskins (2012)
To person
Date of birth February 24, 1991
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
End of career 2017
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2015 World Champion - team pursuit
Last updated: November 6, 2017

Melissa Hoskins (born February 24, 1991 in Kalamunda ) is a former Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

From 2006 Melissa Hoskins was active in competitive cycling, on the road and on the track . In 2008 she was the Australian Junior Team Pursuit Champion , with Sarah Kent and Josephine Tomic ; the three riders were able to repeat this success in 2009 and 2010 in the elite class. In 2009 she became Junior Champion in Keirin . In 2011 Hoskins was again Australian champion in the team pursuit, with Tomic and Isabella King , in the Omnium and points race she was second and third in the single pursuit .

In 2012 Melissa Hoskins became Australian junior champion in the criterion . She also won the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic . At the 2012 UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne , Hoskins won the silver medal in scratch . At the rail world championships in Minsk the following year, Hoskins was runner-up in the team pursuit together with Annette Edmondson and Amy Cure .

In 2016, Hoskins was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . During training a few days before the start of the games, she was seriously injured in a fall. She was able to leave the hospital after a few days because she only suffered burns to the skin. She started in great pain with the Australian team in the team pursuit, which finished fifth. A few days later, Hoskins, who had developed pneumonia earlier in the year , announced her retirement from cycling.

Melissa Hoskins is in a relationship with the cyclist Rohan Dennis (as of 2019).

successes

train

2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

Street

2011
2012
2013
2014

Teams

Web links

Commons : Melissa Hoskins  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Serious fall of the four-man from Australia in the women in Rio 2016. In: radsportseiten.net. August 9, 2016, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Associated Press: Australia's Melissa Hoskins out of Rio hospital after velodrome crash. In: theguardian.com. August 11, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Vittorio Hernandez: Rio 2016 Olympics: Hip injury forces Australian cyclist Melissa Hoskins into retiring from sport. In: ibtimes.com.au. August 15, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Jessi Braverman: Melissa Hoskins announces retirement. In: cyclingnews.com. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoskins, Melissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalamunda