The Amy Gillett Foundation has marked its tenth anniversary this week and announced the 11th recipient of its scholarship that provides athletes with the opportunity to race and train with the Australian national team in Europe. Louisa Lobigs, who is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Western Australia, from the Holden Women's Cycling Team, is the 2016 scholarship recipient.
Formed on 24 February 2006, the Amy Gillett Foundation has strived to ensure that "everyone has the right to arrive home safely" through a series of initiatives. Primarily through the 'a metre matters' campaign, launched in 2009, that drivers need to allow a minimum overtaking distance of one metre. The campaign became law late-last year in South Australia where the government mandated the minimum overtaking distance. The Queensland and ACT government are currently two year trials of the minimum overtaking distance with New South Wales to implement its own two-year trial from next month.
"In our hearts we wish there was no such anniversary," Amy Gillett Chairman Mark Textor said in a statement. "That would mean that Amy was still with us.
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"She would have pursued her sporting dreams to their conclusion and, having celebrated her 40th birthday in January, she would be enjoying the next phase of her life. Of course, we know this is not possible."
Amy Gillett was killed by a driver whilst training with her Australian team on July 18, 2005, in Germany on the eve of the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen race.
"Due to the strength of her husband, Simon, and parents, Mary and Denis, they determined to remember Amy by creating a foundation that would work for the safety of all those who ride a bike – whether, like Amy, it’s as a profession in the elite peloton, as a weekend warrior who dons the lycra, or whether it’s for transport or the simple joy of riding a bike," Textor added.
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