Kim Brennan AM
Melbourne University Boat Club (VIC)
Kim Brennan (nee Crow) is an Olympic gold, silver and bronze medallist. She commenced her elite sporting career as a track and field athlete, finishing second at the World Youth Championships in 2001. Following injury, Kim took up rowing with Melbourne University Boat Club in 2005, made her first Australian team within 8 months of starting rowing and won a bronze medal in the women's eight at the World Championships that year.
At the London Games, Kim made history when she competed in two separate rowing events at the Olympics. Partnered with Brooke Pratley, the duo brought home a silver medal in the women's double sculls, before Kim went on to claim a bronze in the single sculls.
Kim married 2008 rowing gold medallist, Scott Brennan, in Hobart in 2015. In 2016 Kim added gold to her Olympic medal collection, winning the single scull and being selected as the flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony of the Rio Olympic Games.
Kim currently fills the deputy Chair role at the Australian Olympic Athletes Commission, sits on the AIS Ethics Committee, the AOC Selection Committee, the Rowing Australia Athletes' Commission and is an ambassador for the GoodSports Program.
2012 Olympic Podium
2016 Olympic Games Podium - Four years and into the gold medal position
The finishing stages of 2016
Recognition
2010 - Rowing Australia Awards - Female Athlete of the Year
2011 - Rowing Australia Awards - Female Athlete of the Year
2012 - Rowing Australia Awards - Female Athlete of the Year
2012 - Victorian Female Athlete of the Year
2013 - Victorian Female Athlete of the Year
2013 - Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year
2013 - Rowing Australia Awards - Fame Athlete of the Year
2013 - International Rowing Federation - Female Athlete of the Year
2013 - Australian Women's Health Prime Minister's Women in Sport Award
2015 - Rowing Australia Awards - Female Athlete of the Year
2016 - AIS Sport Performance Awards - Female Athlete of the Year
2016 - ACT Sports Awards - Female Athlete of the Year
2016 - Women's Health I Support Women in Sport Awards - Sportswoman Of The Year
2017 - Member of the Order of Australia
Medal Record
Olympic Games
Gold medal - first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Single sculls
Silver medal - second place 2012 London Double sculls
Bronze medal - third place 2012 London Single sculls
World Championships
Gold medal - first place 2013 Chungju Single sculls
Gold medal - first place 2015 Aiguebelette Single sculls
Silver medal - second place 2010 Karapiro Double sculls
Silver medal - second place 2011 Bled Double sculls
Silver medal - second place 2014 Amsterdam Single sc
Bronze medal - third place 2006 Eton Eights
Women's athletics
World Youth Championships
Silver medal - second place 2001 Debrecen 400 m hurdles
Compiled by Andrew Guerin, May 2020
Sources:
- 2018 Victorian Rowing Hall of Fame
- Andrew Guerin