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Nationality
  
Australia


Name
  
Kerry Golding

Kerry Golding

Full name
  
Kerry Joan Modra (nee Golding)

Born
  
27 November 1973
Nowra, New South Wales

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Kerry Joan Modra (née Golding, OAM (born 27 November 1973) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot. She was born in the New South Wales city of Nowra. She was introduced to Kieran Modra, a visually impaired cyclist, at a friend's 21st birthday party. He convinced her to take up cycling; she had only played netball 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 Medal of the Order of Australia.

She married Modra in May 1997, and they have three children. As Kieran's pilot at the 1998 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Colorado Springs, she won gold medals in the Mixed Tandem Sprint B, Mixed Tandem Time Trial B and Mixed Individual Pursuit B. At the 2000 Sydney Games, 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, Tania, for the rest of the games. In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.

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