{"id":2185,"date":"2018-06-23T02:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyclingclassics.com.au\/noosa\/2018\/06\/23\/smiddy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:51:41","slug":"smiddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyclingclassics.com.au\/noosa\/2018\/06\/23\/smiddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Focus: Support ‘Smiling For Smiddy’ At The Noosa Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Noosa Classic, Bicycling Australia’s inaugural cycling event for Queensland, is thrilled to be partnering with the State’s much-loved and highly-respected charity group, Smiling For Smiddy.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Since 2006, Smiddy riders & supporters have raised over $7 million for cancer research at Brisbane’s Mater Hospital. These funds have already helped enable breakthrough research – discoveries that have the potential to save people\u2019s lives.<\/div>\n
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Select ‘Smiling For Smiddy’ As Your Chosen Charity<\/strong><\/div>\n
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This year the objective is to raise a staggering $1.3 million for Mater Research – and to do that they need your help.<\/p>\n

You can select Smiling For Smiddy in the charity recipient menu when you register for the Noosa Classic<\/a><\/strong>. Share your choice on social media, proudly tell fellow riders you are supporting this critically-needed and essential research.<\/p>\n

About Smiling For Smiddy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In 2006 Adam Smiddy passed away from an aggressive melanoma. He was just 26 years old.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Adam Smiddy never had an enemy in the world.\u00a0His disarming smile, one that rarely left his face even amid the gravest of circumstances, gave his family and friends a window into the soul of a gentle, kind-hearted and unassuming boy from Home Hill.<\/div>\n

In 2006, Adam passed away from an aggressive melanoma. He was just 26 years old, a talented triathlete and respected physiotherapist with the world at his feet.<\/p>\n

Six months earlier, Adam had discovered a small lump in his groin, and a biopsy revealed it was a malignant melanoma. He had immediate surgery to remove the lump and his lymph glands.<\/p>\n

Gradually over a six month period, Adam\u2019s health and fitness started to return. Sadly however, it was not to be.<\/p>\n

During a bike ride with his close friend and triathlon coach, Mark \u2018Sharky\u2019 Smoothy, Adam confessed he was not feeling well. Just over three weeks later, Adam passed away.<\/p>\n

1600km From Brisbane To Home Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Participants during one of the regular Smiling for Smiddy fundraising rides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To honour Adam, in that same year Sharky and two other mates Ron Steel and Oliver Bodak, fulfilled one of Adam\u2019s unrealised dreams.<\/p>\n

They rode 1600 km from Brisbane to Adam\u2019s hometown Home Hill, nothing but a credit card in their back pockets, and raised $24,000 for cancer research in the process.<\/p>\n

The next year 22 friends joined the ride.<\/p>\n

In 2008 there were 50 riders, who together raised an incredible $420,000 for cancer research.<\/p>\n

Over the past ten years supporters have raised over $7 million for cancer research at Mater. That\u2019s an incredible effort, but there is still so much more to be done.<\/p>\n

For further details visit\u00a0www.smiddy.org.au<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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