Kerry Hore (born 3 July 1981) is an Australian former rower, a national champion, world-champion and four-time Olympian who competed in the women's quadruple sculls at the

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and

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. She was in Australian quad sculls which won a 2003 World Championship and a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics.

Personal

Born in

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, Hore attended Mt Stuart Primary and The Friends' School in Hobart. She obtained a BPharmacy from the

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and works as a pharmacist in Bellerive.

Club and national career

Hore's senior rowing was from the New Norfolk Rowing Club and the Huon Rowing Club in southern Tasmania. Later in Hobart she rowed from the Lindisfarne Rowing Club. Hore consistently represented for her state at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In the thirteen-year period 2003 to 2015 she raced for Tasmania on four occasions in the senior women's eight contesting the Queen Elizabeth Cup and on eight occasions she sculled for the Nell Slatter Cup. She rowed in both boats at the 2003, 2007 and 2008 championships. On seven occasions from 2007 to 2014 she competed in New Norfolk colours for the Australian national single sculls title at the Australian Rowing Championships. She placed second in four of those races and finally won that Australian championship title racing in Huon Rowing Club colours in 2014. In 2011 she won she Australian national quad scull title in an Australian selection composite crew.

International career

Hore won gold and the world title at the 2003 World Rowing Championships in

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rowing in a

quad scull A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated as a 4x, is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each h ...

with Jane Robinson, Dana Faletic and Amber Bradley. At the 2004 Athens Olympics with Faletic, Bradley and Rebecca Sattin, Hore won the bronze medal in the women's quad. At Beijing 2008 and

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, Hore was in women's quads who progressed through to finals. They finished in sixth place in 2008 and fourth in 2012. Hore teamed with Kim Crow to win silver medals in the women's

double scull A double scull, also abbreviated as a 2x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") ar ...

at the

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and 2011 World Rowing Championships. At the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro she also raced in the Australian

to a fourth placing. In Rio 2016 Hore was selected in a crew with Jennifer Cleary, Jessica Hall and Madeleine Edmunds to row the Australian women's quad scull. They finished outside the places in their heat of the Olympic regatta and were eliminated in the repechage. Hore nonetheless became the first Australian female rower to compete at four

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hore, Kerry 1981 births Living people Australian female rowers Rowers from Hobart Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Olympic rowers for Australia Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics 21st-century Australian sportswomen Sportswomen from Tasmania People educated at The Friends' School, Hobart