Amber Halliday

Amber Halliday

Halliday in 2008
Medal record
Women's rowing
Competitor for  Australia
World Championships
2001 Lightweight coxless quad-scull
2002 Lightweight double-scull
2007 Lightweight double-scull
2000 Lightweight coxless quad-scull
2003 Lightweight double-scull
2006 Lightweight double-scull

Amber Halliday (born 13 November 1979[1]) is a former rower and cyclist from Adelaide, South Australia. She is a three-time world-champion in lightweight rowing.

Rowing career

Specialising in sculling, Halliday made her international debut in 1999, winning the Under-23 World Championship in Hamburg in the lightweight double scull with Hannah Every.

She won three world championships - the lightweight quad scull in 2001 (with Jo Francou, Catriona Roach and Sally Causby) and the lightweight double scull in 2002 (with Sally Causby) and 2007 (with Margeurite Houston).

Halliday also competed in the 2004 Olympic Games with double-partner Sally Newmarch, setting a world-best time in their heat before coming fourth in the final.[2] Named South Australia's Sports Star of 2007 she was pre-selected for the Beijing Olympics where her crew placed 8th in a 'disappointing' performance.[3]

Halliday is a member of the Adelaide University Boat Club.[4]

Cycling

In late 2008 Halliday swapped her row boat for a bicycle, training with the South Australian Sports Institute squad.[5] While riding for MB Cycles, Halliday won her first ever cycle tour, the NZCT Women's Tour of New Zealand in February 2009.[6]

Most recently she was named the Amy Gillett Foundation Scholarship winner.[7]

Crash

On 17 January 2011 Amber was hospitalised after a racing accident sustained at Victoria Park Racecourse, Adelaide.[8]

In September 2011 her recovery was documented by the Australian Broadcasting Commission's program, Contact Sport.[9]

Cycling palmares

2009
4th National Time Trial Championships, AUS
1st Sprint Classification, National Road Race, AUS
1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand, NZL
6th Chongming Island Time Trial (1.1 UCI), CHN
2nd Women's Time Trial Honda Hybrid Tour (Formerly Herald Sun Women's Tour), AUS
2nd Overall Honda Hybrid Tour (Formerly Herald Sun Women's Tour), AUS
25th Giro Donne, ITA
1st Woman Annual Hell of the Marianas Century Cycle, FSM
2010
1st National Time Trial Champion Title
9th National Road Race

See also

Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's lightweight double sculls

References

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  1. ↑ "Amber Halliday". Rowing Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  2. ↑ SASIAC
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Life Impact
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Olympic Rower Wins NZCT Women's Cycle Tour of New Zealand
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ Adelaide Now, 18 January 2001,http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/amber-halliday-suffers-head-injuries-in-cycling-accident/story-e6frea83-1225990090981
  9. ↑ Contact Sport, ABC, 16 September 2011,http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-16/contact-sport-friday-16-september/2903912
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