Name Kate Slatter | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Olympic medals Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's coxless pair People also search for Rachael Taylor, Doina Ignat, Georgeta Damian | ||
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Kate Elizabeth Slatter OAM (married name Kate Allen) is an Australian world champion and Olympic gold medal winning rower from Adelaide, South Australia. She is considered the most successful female rower in Australia's history.
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. 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, and rowed in their victorious Women's Eight in the 1996 Australian University Games, two weeks after winning gold in Atlanta.
Slatter has won sixteen national titles and was awarded the Order of Australia medal for her rowing achievements.
In 2001, she was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'. In 2002, she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.