Gillian Duncan inducted into AusCycling Hall of Fame

Gillian Duncan has been announced as the newest inductee to the AusCycling Hall of Fame.

Gillian is the 62nd inductee into the AusCycling Hall of Fame. Gillian has been inducted within the Builder category.

The Queenslander is the newest addition to the multi-discipline AusCycling Hall of Fame. She joins recent inductees for road: Liz Hepple , Iddo 'Snowy' Munro, Donna Rae-Szalinski, Don Kirkham, and track Mike Victor and Lionel Cox.

Gillan Duncan’s mountain bike career began in 2000 when she joined the Southside Rats club in Brisbane as secretary, treasurer, and race organiser.

In 2004, she was elected Queensland State representative of Mountain Bike Australia before she became the first elected president in 2006, a role she held for three years.

Gillian was involved at all levels at MTBA from organising races, coaching courses, and also writing the initial club and national commissaire policy.

But her greatest motivation was building sustainable trails as part of the Gap Creek Trail Care Alliance which allowed the sport to flourish.

She once commissioned a scientific study on this trail to highlight the benefits of good trail design to reduce the effects of usage and weathering on soil erosion displacement.

Gillian was a tireless advocate to land managers in South East Queensland and soon became a beacon of hope in the early days of MTB, facilitating access to public land all around Australia.

Her years of tireless physical and mental work to initiate trail care programs with councils contributed to mountain biking co-existing with other recreational activities in areas such as Daisy Hill, Mount Coot-tha and Gap Creek in Brisbane, where she has a trail named after her.

Gillian led by example whether it was with a tool in hand at trail maintenance days to ensure their upkeep to international standards, or with a pen at the ready as an author.

In 2003 she published the seminal guide, 'Where to mountain bike in SE Queensland', a task which saw her single-handedly gather all data and maps.

The guide has been a great success and is in its sixth edition.