Melissa Katherine Leckie (7 February 1984 – 4 November 2022)[1] was an Australian Paralympic cyclist.
On 12 June 2001, Leckie became a paraplegic after she returned to her old school and jumped from third floor in a suicide attempt.
[3] She spent over 12 months as an inpatient in the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre due to the lack of government support in upgrading her family home.
In 2012, she interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at disability services conference in Sydney.
[3] In 2002, after becoming a paraplegic, she raced against Louise Sauvage in the Adelaide's City-Bay Fun Run.