Melissa Hoskins of Australia’s ladies’s observe biking workforce poses throughout a media day on July 17, 2012 in Brescia, Italy.

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Melissa Hoskins of Australia’s ladies’s observe biking workforce poses throughout a media day on July 17, 2012 in Brescia, Italy.

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Melissa Hoskins, an Australian world champion bicycle owner and two-time Olympian, died over the weekend after being hit by a automotive outdoors her dwelling close to town of Adelaide. She was 32.

Police arrested her husband, former skilled bicycle owner Rohan Dennis, and charged him in her dying, in response to Australian media.

The Australian Olympic Committee said in a tweet on Sunday that its members have been feeling the “utmost sadness” over the lack of Hoskins.

“Our condolences go to Melissa’s family, friends and the cycling community at this extremely difficult time,” the committee mentioned.

In a press release, the South Australia Police said a 32-year-old Medindie lady suffered “serious injuries” and later died within the hospital after she was hit by a automotive Saturday night.

Police arrested a 33-year-old Medindie man — who they mentioned knew the sufferer — and charged him with inflicting dying by harmful driving, driving with out due care and endangering life. He was bailed and is because of seem within the Adelaide Magistrates Court on March 13, police mentioned.

Authorities didn’t identify Hoskins or Dennis instantly.

The couple have two youngsters.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Hoskins’ household paid tribute to the late bicycle owner in a public assertion shortly after her dying.

“Not only have we lost a daughter and sister, her children have lost their mum, a freewheeling spirit, a giver with a big heart, patience and zest for life,” her father, Peter, mentioned.

Melissa Hoskins, second from left, celebrates with different members of the Australian workforce after profitable the Women’s Team Pursuit Finals on the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, close to Paris, in 2015.

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Hoskins’ former teammates additionally shared reminiscences of the beloved athlete, together with fellow Australian bicycle owner Annette Edmondson.

“A force to be reckoned with, she took the cycling world by storm, before pursuing her next dream; starting a family & becoming the ultimate Mum,” Edmondson said in a tweet.

Hoskins helped Australia win gold within the ladies’s workforce pursuit occasion on the observe biking world championships in France in 2015, and he or she additionally competed in two Olympic Games — London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

She retired from skilled biking in 2017.