Former track specialists Katie Mactier and Julie Speight have been named as the first two inductees into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame for 2017.
Speight made history in 1988 as the first Australian women to represent the country on the track at the Olympic Games. Two years later, Speight became Australia's first sprint Commonwealth Game medallist. During her career, she also won eight national titles on the track and road.
Mactier, who took up cycling seriously at 25, also enjoyed success on the tack with Olympic silver in 2004 in the individual pursuit after setting a new world record in the heats. A year later, she won the pursuit world title and then at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Mactier won gold in the same event.
Mactier also won four individual pursuit titles in her career along with the 2001 and 2007 national road races titles.
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"The 2003 worlds would be one of my many highlights as a track athlete," said Mactier. "With silver I qualified my Olympic position in the 2004 Athens Games and from that moment on I never looked back.
"I was single-minded about my approach with the IP; I loved the event, the training it required and I wanted to get faster and faster. John [Beasley] and I set no boundaries and with hard training we saw the times getting quicker.
"“Athens 2004 must be one of my happiest memories. I had only officially been racing on the track for just under one year, but with perfect preparation and conditions between Sarah Ulmer and myself we were able to go sub 3.30 for the first time and I proudly walked away with a silver medal."
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