Kerry Hore

Kerry Hore (2nd from left) at the 2010 World Cup awards ceremony

Kerry Hore (born July 3, 1981 in Hobart ) is an Australian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in quad sculls in 2004.

Athletic career

Kerry Hore made her debut as a single rower in the Rowing World Cup in 2002 and finished 14th in Lucerne. At the U23 World Championships in 2002, she rowed to eighth place in the single. In 2003 she switched to the quad scull and won the World Cup in Lucerne in this boat class. At the 2003 World Championships in Milan, Jane Robinson , Dana Faletic , Kerry Hore and Amber Bradley received the gold medal. A year later at the Olympic Games in 2004 , the Australian double scull with Faletic, Rebecca Sattin , Kerry Hore and Amber Bradley finished fourth behind the Germans, the British and the Ukrainians. After the Ukrainian Olena Olefirenko was disqualified for doping, the Australians moved up and were awarded the bronze medal.

In 2005, Kerry Hore competed at the World Championships in one and finished seventh. In 2007 in Munich , Kerry Hore and Amber Bradley started in double sculls and placed ninth. In 2008 both returned to the double fours. At the 2008 Olympics , the Australian double scull finished sixth with Zoe Uphill , Amber Bradley, Kerry Hore and Amy Clay .

After a year off, Kerry Hore competed in two boat classes at the 2010 World Championships . In the double scull she won the silver medal behind the British women together with Kim Crow . The four-and-four with Kerry Hore, Brooke Pratley , Kim Crow and Sally Kehoe finished fourth, four and a half seconds behind the third placed. In 2011, as in the previous year, the British Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger won the double sculls at the World Championships in Bled ahead of Kerry Hore and Kim Crow. In her third Olympic participation in 2012 on Dorney Lake in Eton , Kerry Hore rowed again in quadruples. Together with Amy Clay, Dana Faletic and Pauline Frasca , she finished fourth, one second behind the bronze medal.

Even after the 2012 Olympics, Kerry Hore took a year off, but returned to double fours in 2014. In the line-up of Jessica Hall , Kerry Hore, Madeleine Edmunds and Jennifer Cleary , the Australian double foursome also reached fourth place at the 2014 World Championships . A year later, the Australian double scull finished fifth in the same line-up at the 2015 World Championships . In 2016, the Australians finished seventh at the Olympic Games .

1.83 m tall Kerry Hore rows for the Tasmanian New Norfolk Rowing Club .

Web links

• Kerry Hore in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Kerry Hore at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )