thumb thumb|Carly Hibberd competing at the Canberra Tour July 2008 {{short description|Australian cyclist}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Carly Hibberd | birth_date = {{birth date|1985|05|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Sherwood, Queensland, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|07|06|1985|05|11|df=y}} | death_place = Lurate Caccivio, Italy | discipline = Road bicycle racing | amateuryears1 = 2006–2008 | amateurteam1 = MBCycles | proyears1 = 2009–2010 | proteam1 = S.C. Michela Fanini Record Rox | proyears2 = 2011 | proteam2 = Cassina Rizzardi A Style Fionucci }} '''Carly Hibberd''' (11 May 1985 – 6 July 2011) was an Australian professional road racing cyclist who competed in Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-sanctioned races. She won the 2008 Australian National Criterium Championships and was second in that year's Tour de Perth. Aged six, Hibberd took up BMX before moving onto mountain biking and then road cycling.through a talent identification scheme. She began riding competitive events in 2004 and went on to compete in several women's events organised by the UCI. Hibberd was hit while riding her bike by a driver while training in Northern Italy and died from her injuries. A memorial trophy and park in Toowoomba are named after her.
==Biography== Hibberd was born on 11 May 1985,<ref name=UCIProfile>{{cite web|title=Hibberd Carly|url=https://www.uci.org/track/teams/TeamMemberDetails?memberId=43983|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-date=3 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103210016/https://www.uci.org/track/teams/TeamMemberDetails?memberId=43983}}</ref> in the Brisbane suburb of Sherwood, Queensland.<ref name=HibberdCyclePark>{{cite news|last=Backhouse|first=Andrew|title=Park named in honour of cycling great|url=https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/park-named-in-honour-of-cycling-great/2516996/|work=The Toowoomba Chronicle|date=20 January 2015|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114215737/https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/park-named-in-honour-of-cycling-great/2516996/|archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref><ref name="ABCHibberdDeath">{{cite news|title=Aussie cyclist killed on Italian training ride|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-07/aussie-cyclist-killed-on-italian-training-ride/2785284|work=ABC News|agency=Australian Associated Press|date=6 July 2011|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030153520/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-07/aussie-cyclist-killed-on-italian-training-ride/2785284|archive-date=30 October 2016}}</ref> She was the daughter of Mark and Roslyn Hibberd and has one brother.<ref name="HibberdFuneral" /><ref name="HibbertTribute">{{cite news|title=Coast parents mourn loss|url=https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/young-champion-killed-in-italy-crash-tributes-flow/899879/|work=Sunshine Coast Daily|date=8 July 2011|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114215739/https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/young-champion-killed-in-italy-crash-tributes-flow/899879/|archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref> Aged six, Hibberd began racing BMX in Toowoomba,<ref name="HibberdCyclePark" /><ref name=HibberdTrophy>{{cite news|last=Drewe|first=Ben|title=Trophy in memory of talented rider|url=https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/trophy-in-memory-of-a-talented-rider/1265975/|work=The Northern Star|date=9 February 2012|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113155658/https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/trophy-in-memory-of-a-talented-rider/1265975/|archive-date=13 November 2019}}</ref> often with the future professional cyclist Jared Graves,<ref name="ChronicleDec08">{{cite news|last=Huxley|first=Jennifer|title=BMX sets Hibberd on road to glory|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A195878647/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=10c13f50|work=The Toowoomba Chronicle|date=16 December 2008|access-date=14 November 2019|page=34|via=Gale OneFile: News|url-access=subscription|archive-date=3 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103210103/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA195878647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=GPS&asid=10c13f50|url-status=live}}</ref> before the family moved from Toowoomba to the Sunshine Coast around 1997.<ref name="HibbertTribute" /><ref name="ChronicleDec08" /> She later took up mountain biking,<ref name="HibberdCyclePark" /> and was subsequently introduced to road cycling by a talent identification scheme in 2000.<ref name="ABCHibberdDeath" /><ref name="HibberdTrophy" /> Hibberd did so to provide herself with a greater number of opportunities for her career.<ref name="ChronicleDec08" /> She attended boarding school and then was accepted into a scholarship scheme at the Queensland Academy of Sport from 2005 to 2007.<ref name="ABCHibberdDeath" /><ref name="HibberdTrophy" /> Hibberg became a member of the Ipswich Cycling Club.<ref name="QTDeathNotice" />
In 2004, she won the Tenthill Classic road race.<ref name="HibberdTrophy" /> Hibberd began her professional career in 2005 when she entered the Geelong Tour and the New Zealand World Cup, finishing 60th and 48th overall, respectively. She finished 21st and 25th in the 2006 National Championships Australia time trial and road race. Two months later, Hibberd failed to finish her second entry in the New Zealand World Cup.<ref name="CareerResults">{{cite web|title=Carly Hibberd – Results|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/carly-hibberd/results|publisher=ProCyclingStats|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114215738/https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/carly-hibberd/results|archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref> She took a second-place finish in the road race and third in the criterium events of the Women's National Grand Prix Series. Not long after Hibberd came third at the Grafton to Glen Innes Cycle Classic.<ref name=HibberdNDL>{{cite news|title=Ladies' event a war of attrition|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A324002931/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=f3c0c459|work=Northern Daily Leader|date=17 September 2006|access-date=14 November 2019|via=Gale OneFile: News|url-access=subscription}}</ref> An illness required her to sit out several events in 2007;<ref name="ChronicleSep08"/> Hibberd came second in the 2007 Australian National Criterium Championships in the Elite category.<ref name="W2007-8">{{cite web|last=Michael Flynn|first=John|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2007/dec07/south_bank072|title=Tasmania's Comeback Queen Wins National Title|date=2 December 2007|website=Cyclingnews.com|access-date=14 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918202735/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road%2F2007%2Fdec07%2Fsouth_bank072|archive-date=18 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> With the MD Cycles Team she accumulated enough points in all six rounds of the 2008 Australian National Criterium Championships to win it overall with 768 points.<ref name="ChronicleSep08">{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A195879170/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=2ec71e54|title=Former BMX rider races past road cycling rivals|date=26 September 2008|work=The Toowoomba Chronicle|access-date=14 November 2019|page=26|via=Gale OneFile: News|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Hibberd received a wild card to qualify for the 2008 Geelong World Cup,<ref name="ChronicleSep08" /> where she finished 13th.<ref name="CareerResults" /> She then entered the Women's Tour of New Zealand and was 62nd,<ref name="CareerResults" /> before she finished second at the Tour de Perth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/ritfiche.php?ritid=125774|title=Tour de Perth (F) 2008|publisher=Cycling Archives|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315080614/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/ritfiche.php?ritid=125774|archive-date=15 March 2016|access-date=14 November 2019}}</ref> Hibberd signed to the Cassina Rizzardi A Style Fionucci team in 2009 and moved to Italy to further her career;<ref name="QTDeathNotice" /> she expressed a desire to qualify for the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games.<ref name="ChronicleDec08" /> During the season, Hibberd partook in the Grand Prix de Dottignies, the Novilon Eurocup Ronde Van Drenthe, the GP Liberazione, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira, the Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol, the Giro d'Italia Femminile and the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini.<ref name="CareerResults" />
In the 2010 season, she made an appearance in each of the GP Liberazione, the Gracia–Orlová, the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, the GP Ciudad de Valladolid, the Emakumeen Saria and the Emakumeen Euskal Bira.<ref name="CareerResults" /> Before the 2011 season, Hibberd moved to the Cassina Rizzardi A Style Fionucci squad.<ref name="QTDeathNotice">{{cite news|last=Gould|first=Joel|title=Top rider killed in Italy|url=https://www.qt.com.au/news/top-rider-killed-in-italy-carly-hibberd/899516/|work=The Queensland Times|date=8 July 2011|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114221243/https://www.qt.com.au/news/top-rider-killed-in-italy-carly-hibberd/899516/|archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref> She competed in two events, the GP Liberazione and the GP Comune di Cornaredo.<ref name="CareerResults" /> Hibberd was due to marry her fiancée Cameron Rogers in October 2011.<ref name="CWHibberdDeath">{{cite news|last=Bull|first=Nick|title=Australian cyclist Carly Hibberd killed in Italy|url=https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/australian-cyclist-carly-hibberd-killed-in-italy-50422#YIZXUyoBHO7sZS6z.99|work=Cycling Weekly|date=7 July 2011|access-date=14 November 2019}}</ref>
==Death== thumb|Carly Hibberd's memorial at the site of her accident On 6 July 2011, she was with her training partner and fellow cyclist Diego Tamayo in fine weather conditions on a road between Appiano Gentile and Lurate Caccivio to the north of Milan when a friend driver struck her at around 10:45 local time.<ref name="ABCHibberdDeath" /><ref name=SMHHibberdDeath>{{cite news|last=Callgeros|first=Melissa|title=Pro cyclist Carly Hibberd killed by car while training|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/pro-cyclist-carly-hibberd-killed-by-car-while-training-20110707-1h4rk.html|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=8 July 2011|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114215736/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/pro-cyclist-carly-hibberd-killed-by-car-while-training-20110707-1h4rk.html|archive-date=14 November 2019}}</ref> According to Tamayo, Hibberd was about {{Convert|50|m|ft|abbr=on}} behind when the female driver of the car steered left and hit her Hibberd.<ref name="HibberdDeathDetails">{{cite news|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/bike-a-memorial-to-fallen-rider/news-story/02120b0a93876e42cc574c29f7e47e84?sv=f577a73315eb9b17484bc0e57b5c1bcc|title=Bike a memorial to fallen rider|last=Carne|first=Lucy|date=9 July 2011|work=The Courier-Mail|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-date=3 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103210050/https://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/bike-a-memorial-to-fallen-rider/news-story/02120b0a93876e42cc574c29f7e47e84?sv=f577a73315eb9b17484bc0e57b5c1bcc&nk=3e7737f2d8aa29a729839d98459372a4-1604437250}}</ref> Her riding helmet had come off in the impact and she was killed instantly.<ref name="SMHHibberdDeath" /><ref name="HibberdDeathDetails" /> Tamayo attempted resuscitation before paramedics arrived by helicopter to tend to Hibberd.<ref name="ABCHibberdDeath" /><ref name="HibberdDeathDetails" /> On 29 July she was given a funeral at the Ashgrove Baptist Church in Brisbane attended by her family and friends.<ref name="HibberdFuneral">{{cite news|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/sad-tribute-to-a-champion/news-story/9a2b03892f2f1b79b4de26e99663c123?sv=a0b0cb77f99b016e8ce1fbb1468e6d0a|title=Sad tribute to a champion|last=O'Loan|first=James|date=29 July 2011|work=The Courier-Mail|access-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live|archive-date=3 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103210018/https://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/sad-tribute-to-a-champion/news-story/9a2b03892f2f1b79b4de26e99663c123?sv=a0b0cb77f99b016e8ce1fbb1468e6d0a&nk=ab00bbf659b31f7c37e20dda0cd3b9b8-1604437218}}</ref>
==Legacy== The organisers of the 2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile cancelled the podium ceremony for its sixth stage out of respect for Hibberd.<ref name="SMHHibberdDeath" /> The competing Australian riders planned to wear black arm bands in Hibberd's memory and they requested a moment of silence be observed to remember her before the seventh stage began.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/australian-riders-remember-carly-hibberd-20110708-1h5g5.html|title=Australian riders remember Carly Hibberd|last=Guinness|first=Rupert|date=8 July 2011|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=14 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114213515/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/australian-riders-remember-carly-hibberd-20110708-1h5g5.html|archive-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
The Carly Hibberd Memorial Trophy was established by her first coach David Budden after Hibberd's father consented to the idea to honour "a tenacious female rider" in 2012. It is awarded after the Toowoomba BMX Club's open day by her parents who deem on the best rider who won the award on merit.<ref name="HibberdTrophy" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/toowoomba-rider-takes-out-bmx-honour/1931502/|title=Toowoomba rider takes out BMX honour|last=Slatter|first=Trent|date=3 July 2013|work=NewsMail|access-date=14 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114213522/https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/toowoomba-rider-takes-out-bmx-honour/1931502/|archive-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-chronicle-8992/20180602/282973925716695|title=Toowoomba BMX club celebrating its open day|date=2 June 2018|work=The Toowoomba Chronicle|access-date=14 November 2019|via=PressReader|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114213516/https://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-chronicle-8992/20180602/282973925716695|archive-date=14 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> On 20 January 2015, Toowoomba Regional Council voted unanimously to name a park in its "Cycling Estate" located on Nelson Street, Kearneys Spring after Hibberd following lobbying by Budden for additional memorialisation of the cyclist.<ref name="HibberdCyclePark" />
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{Cycling Archives|38554}} * {{ProCyclingStats|carly-hibberd|Carly Hibberd}}
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