Kim Brennan

Kim Brennan
Kim Crow at the 2015 World Rowing Championships
Full name	Kimberley Brennan
nation	Australia
birthday	August 9, 1985
place of birth	Melbourne ,  Australia
size	188 cm
Weight	75 kg
job	Lawyer
Career
discipline	Rowing , Oars (until 2009) and Skull (since 2010)
society	Melbourne University Boat Club
Trainer	Lyall McCarthy
National squad	since 2006
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 3 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro One silver 2012 London Double scull bronze 2012 London One  World championships gold 2015 Aiguebelette One silver 2014 Amsterdam One gold 2013 Chungju One silver 2011 Bled Double scull silver 2010 Hamilton Double scull bronze 2006 Eton Eighth
Last change: November 24, 2019

Kimberley "Kim" Brennan , née Kimberley Crow (born August 9, 1985 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian rower who won two Olympic medals in 2012 and was Olympic champion in one in 2016 . She also won two world titles in one.

Career

Before her career as a rower, Crow was a track and field athlete, she was the second fastest Australian at the Australian Championships in the 400-meter hurdles behind Jana Pittman in the 2003/04 season. Due to an injury, she had to end her athletics career, so she began rowing in 2005. In 2006 she competed in the World Cup for the first time , and at the rowing world championships in 2006 she rowed the bronze medal with the Australian eighth . In 2007 she won her first World Cup regatta in Linz together with Sarah Cook in a pair without a helmsman . At the 2007 World Rowing Championships , she finished fourth in both the two and eighth. In 2008, Cook and Crow only competed in two, but missed the A-final at the Olympic Regatta in Beijing and ultimately finished tenth. The following year, the two rowed to fifth place at the 2009 World Rowing Championships .

In 2010 Kim Crow switched from oar rowing to sculling and immediately took medal ranks in the World Cup. At the 2010 World Rowing Championships , she and Kerry Hore won the silver medal in the double scull and reached fourth place with the double scull . In 2011, Hore and Crow were able to repeat their silver medal from the previous year at the 2011 World Rowing Championships . After Crow had also won the Olympic start right for the single at the qualification regatta on the Rotsee near Lucerne , she achieved the medal ranks in both boats at the Olympic regatta : After bronze in the single, she won silver in the double scull with Brooke Pratley . The following year, Kim Crow rowed her first world title at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in a single. At the 2014 World Rowing Championships , she finished second behind Emma Twigg from New Zealand. The following year, Kim Crow won her second single title at the 2015 World Championships . She celebrated her greatest success in 2016 at the 2016 Olympic Games , when she was in the lead for the entire race and in the end won the gold medal 1.4 seconds ahead of Genevra Stone from the United States.

In 2019 Kim Brennan was honored by the World Rowing Association with its highest award, the Thomas Keller Medal .

Private

In December 2015, Kim Crow married the Australian rower Scott Brennan , who was, among other things, 2008 Olympic champion in double sculls . Crow then started under her married name Kim Brennan. She is a lawyer and spokesperson for the Athletes Committee of the Australian Olympic Committee .

Web links

Commons : Kim Brennan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kim Brennan - Athlete Profile on the Australian Rowing Federation website
• Kim Brennan at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Kim Brennan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kimberley Crow in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
2. ↑ The finest in rowing for 2019 honored at World Rowing Awards dinner. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association , November 22, 2019, accessed on November 24, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Nicole Jeffery: New name for rower Kim Crow doesn't change her quest for gold. In: www.theaustralian.com.au. The Australian, January 5, 2016, accessed January 6, 2016 . 
4. ^ Athletes' Commission. Australian Olympic Committee, accessed January 6, 2016 .