Kim Brennan, born Kimberley Jean Crow on 9 August 1985 in Melbourne, is a retired Australian rower and the 2016 Olympic champion in the women's single scull. She took up rowing in 2005 after a leg injury ended her career as a 400 metre hurdler, where she had won silver at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics. At the 2012 London Olympics she won silver in the women's double sculls with Brooke Pratley and bronze in the single sculls, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics she led the single scull final from start to finish. She was world champion in the single scull in 2013 and 2015, rowed for Melbourne University Boat Club, and retired in November 2018. She is a qualified lawyer and in 2017 was made a Member of the Order of Australia.
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is an Australian retired rower
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She is a sixteen-time national champion, two-time World Champion, three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medallist.
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is an Australian retired rower
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at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, Rowing career, 2012 Games
At the 2012 London Olympic Games
Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, Rowing career, 2016 Games
At those 2016 Summer Olympics, Brennan won the women's single scull
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