Kerry Joan Modra (; born 27 November 1973) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot. She was born in the New South Wales city of

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. She was introduced to

Kieran Modra Kieran John Modra (27 March 1972 – 13 November 2019) was an Australian Paralympic swimmer and tandem cyclist. He won five gold and five bronze medals at eight Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2016, along with two silver medals at the 2014 Gla ...

, a visually impaired cyclist, at a friend's 21st birthday party. He convinced her to take up cycling; she had only played

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before then. She became Modra's pilot, and six months later, she won a gold medal with him at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Mixed 200 m Sprint Tandem open event, for which she received a

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She was married to Modra from May 1997 until his death in 2019, and they had three daughters. As Kieran's pilot at the 1998

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, she won gold medals in the Mixed Tandem Sprint B, Mixed Tandem Time Trial B and Mixed Individual Pursuit B. At the

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, she did not win any medals. At the games, she was pregnant with the couple's first child, and fainted due to low blood pressure during a quarter-final sprint race; she was replaced as Kieran's pilot by his sister

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for the rest of the games. In 2000, she received an

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