Kate Slatter

Kate Slatter
Medal record
Women's Rowing
Competitor for  Australia
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Coxless pair
2000 Sydney Coxless pair
World Championships
1995 Coxless pair
1994 Coxless four
1999 Coxless pair
Commonwealth Regatta
1994 Coxless Four
1994 Eight

Kate Elizabeth Slatter OAM (married name Kate Allen[1]) is an Australian world champion and Olympic gold medal winning rower from Adelaide, South Australia.[2] She is considered the most successful female rower in Australia's history.[1]

Slatter won a gold medal in the coxless pair at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Megan Still, together becoming Australia's first female gold medal recipients in the sport of rowing.[3] Slatter went on to win a silver medal at her home Olympics in Sydney, 2000.

Slatter began rowing at the Adelaide University Boat Club in 1989,[4] and rowed in their victorious Women's Eight in the 1996 Australian University Games, two weeks after winning gold in Atlanta.[5]

Slatter has won sixteen national titles and was awarded the Order of Australia medal for her rowing achievements.[6]

In 2001, she was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'.[7] In 2002 she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Australian Olympic Committee: Olympian Search". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Home : Australian Institute of Sport : Australian Sports Commission". Ais.org.au. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  3. ↑ LONDON TIME. "London 2012 – Official Australian Olympic Team website – London 2012". Olympics.com.au. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Adelaidean Magazine
  5. ↑ "Australian University Championships – Australian Rowing History". Rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "Sydney Olympic Games Athlete Profiles – Women's coxless pair rowing (Rowing)". Abc.net.au. 6 May 1976. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  7. ↑ Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'
  8. ↑ "Sport Australia Hall of Fame – Member Profile". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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