The man who killed Dutch cyclist Gitta Scheenhouwer in a high-speed crash on one of Melbourne’s busiest roads has been jailed for 11 years and banned from driving for two decades.

Michael Panayides had used drugs in the hours before he sped a stolen Mercedes-Benz SUV at 80km/h in a 40km/h zone in Chapel Street, South Yarra, on August 12 last year, and crashed trying to overtake another car.

Gitta Scheenhouwer with her boyfriend Thomas Kleinegris.

Panayides accelerated trying to overtake a Mitsubishi Lancer but instead smashed into the back of that car, into two parked cars and Ms Scheenhouwer, who was riding in a bicycle lane. The graduate architect was on her way to work.

Panayides walked away from the crash as the cyclist lay dying.