Kim Brennan

Kim Brennan
AM

Personal information
Birth name	Kimberley Jean Crow
Full name	Kimberley Jean Brennan
Born	9 August 1985 (1985-08-09) (age 32) Melbourne, Australia
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Single sculls 2012 London Double sculls 2012 London Single sculls World Championships 2013 Chungju Single sculls 2015 Aiguebelette Single sculls 2010 Karapiro Double sculls 2011 Bled Double sculls 2014 Amsterdam Single sculls 2006 Eton Eights Women's athletics World Youth Championships 2001 Debrecen 400 m hurdles

Kimberley Jean "Kim" Brennan AM ^[1](née Crow; born 9 August 1985) is an Australian World Champion, Olympian and Olympic Gold Medal winning rower.

Personal

Crow was born in Melbourne and went to school at Templestowe Heights Primary School from prep to year 4 then Ruyton Girls' School from year 5. Her father Max Crow was a Victorian Football League footballer between 1974 and 1986.^[2] She is a qualified lawyer and has been a regular columnist for The Age.^[2] She married Beijing Olympic double sculls gold medallist Scott Brennan in Hobart, Tasmania on 30 December 2015 and became known as Kim Brennan.^[3]

Athletics career

Crow was a 400 m hurdler and she won the silver medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics. She won the Australian junior title at the Australian Athletics Championships for the seasons 2001–2002 and 2003–2004. At the 2003–2004 Australian Athletics Championships, she finished fourth in the Senior final behind Jana Pittman and was the ranked the second Australian.^[4]

Rowing career

In 2005, Crow took up rowing after a leg injury ended her hurdling career.^[2] Crow is a member of the Melbourne University Boat Club in Melbourne and represents for Victoria at the national level. At the Australian Rowing Championships in 2012, 2015 & 2016 she won the Nell Slater Trophy in the Interstate Women's Single Scull representing Victoria.^[5] During the Victorian Women's VIII's twelve year consecutive victory run from 2005 to 2016, Crow was seated in the boat on nine occasions for nine Queen's Cup victories up till 2016. On five occasions at the Interstate Regatta she has raced in both the VIII and the single scull on the same day, winning both titles on three occasions.

Olympic Games

Crow with her partner Sarah Cook finished fourth in the Women's Pair B-Final at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.^[6] At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Crow won a silver medal in the Women's Double Sculls (with Brooke Pratley) and a bronze medal in the Women's Single Sculls.^[6] At the 2015 world rowing championships Crow qualified the Single scull for Australia to race at Rio 2016. At those 2016 Summer Olympics, Brennan won the Women's Single scull and took the gold medal, leading the race from start to finish.

World Championships

Crow was a member of the Australian Women's Eight that won the bronze medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships.^[7] She teamed with Kerry Hore to win silver medals in the Women's Double Sculls at the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships.^[7] At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Crow won gold in the single scull taking a lead from the 300 m mark and holding it to the line. In the same event at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, Crow took silver behind New Zealand's Emma Twigg. Crow became a dual World Champion by winning gold at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette,^[8] defeating 2012 Summer Olympics champion Miroslava Knapková.

She was coached by Lyall McCarthy at Rowing Australia's Centre of Excellence in Canberra.^[9] She is Chair of the Australian Olympic Committee's (AOC) Athletes Commission and a full voting member on the AOC Board.^[10]

Recognition

• 2010 – Rowing Australia Awards – Female Athlete of the Year with Kerry Hore ^[11]
• 2011 – Rowing Australia Awards – Female Athlete of the Year with Kerry Hore ^[11]
• 2012 – Rowing Australia Awards – Female Athlete of the Year ^[11]
• 2012 – Victorian Female Athlete of the Year ^[12]
• 2013 – Victorian Female Athlete of the Year ^[12]
• 2013 – Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year
• 2013 – Rowing Australia Awards – Fame Athlete of the Year ^[11]
• 2013 – International Rowing Federation – Female Athlete of the Year ^[13]
• 2013 – Australian Women's Health Prime Minister's Women in Sport Award^[14]
• 2015 – Rowing Australia Awards – Female Athlete of the Year
• 2016 – AIS Sport Performance Awards – Female Athlete of the Year ^[15]
• 2016 – ACT Sports Awards – Female Athlete of the Year ^[16]
• 2016 – Women’s Health I Support Women in Sport (ISWIS) Awards – Sportswoman Of The Year^[17]
• 2017 – Member of the Order of Australia – for significant service to rowing, to the welfare of elite athletes, to sport as a gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and to the community.^[18][19]

References

External links

• Rowing Australia Athlete Profile
• Kim Brennan at FISA WorldRowing.com
• "Kim Brennan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.