Kate Slatter
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Rowing | ||
Representing  Australia |
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | Coxless pair |
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2000 Sydney | Coxless pair |
| World Championships | ||
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1995 | Coxless pair |
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1994 | Coxless four |
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1999 | Coxless pair |
| Commonwealth Regatta | ||
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1994 | Coxless Four |
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1994 | Eight |
Kate Elizabeth Slatter OAM (married name Kate Allen[1]) is an Australian world champion and Olympic gold medal winning rower from Adelaide, South Australia.[2] She is considered the most successful female rower in Australia's history.[1]
Slatter won a gold medal in the coxless pair at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Megan Still, together becoming Australia's first female gold medal recipients in the sport of rowing.[3] Slatter went on to win a silver medal at her home Olympics in Sydney, 2000.
Slatter began rowing at the Adelaide University Boat Club in 1989,[4] and rowed in their victorious Women's Eight in the 1996 Australian University Games, two weeks after winning gold in Atlanta.[5]
Slatter has won sixteen national titles and was awarded the Order of Australia medal for her rowing achievements.[6]
In 2001, she was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'.[7] In 2002 she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[8]
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- Australian female rowers
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- People educated at Geelong Grammar School
- Australian Institute of Sport rowers
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
- Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
