THE Indian Pacific Wheel Race has been cancelled following the death of the second-placed contestant in a collision early this morning (March 31) involving a car and a cyclist on the Monaro Highway towards Williamsdale.
Thirty-five-year-old British cyclist Mike Hall, regarded as one of the world’s best ultra-endurance racers and holds the record for the fastest completion of the Trans Am and Tour Divide bikepacking races in the US, was killed in the crash that occurred at about 6.25am.
He is the third person to die on ACT roads this year.
Hall is a cyclist and race organiser who specialises in self-supported, ultra-distance races. In 2012, he won the inaugural World Cycle Race. In 2013 and 2016, he won the Tour Divide ultra-endurance mountain bike race across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the US. In 2014, he won the inaugural Trans Am Bike Race, a road-based event from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast in the US. Since 2013, he has been the principal organiser of the Transcontinental Race, an event similar to the TransAm Bicycle Race, but that traverses Europe.
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