{{short description|Australian rower}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox sportsperson | honorific_prefix = | name = Kerry Hore | honorific_suffix = | image = Kerry Hore, 2010.jpg | image_size = <!-- Use only when absolutely necessary --> | alt = | caption = Kerry Hore in 2010 | headercolor = | textcolor = | <!-- Personal information --> | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = <!-- will not display if national_team is defined --> | national_team = <!-- only for the country represented in international competition --> | ethnicity = | citizenship = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|7|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Hobart, Tasmania | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|death year|death month|death day|birth year|birth month|birth day}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | employer = | agent = | height = {{cvt|183|cm}} | weight = {{cvt|74|kg}} | spouse = | life_partner = | other_interests = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | module = | <!-- Sport --> | country = | sport = | position = | disability = | disability_class = | weight_class = | weight_class_type = | rank = | event = | event_type = | collegeteam = | universityteam = | league = | league_type = | club = | team = | turnedpro = | turnedpro_type = | partner = | former_partner = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | module2 = | <!-- Achievements and titles --> | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = Queens Cup 8 times <br> Nell Slatter Trophy 8 times | olympics = | paralympics = | commonwealth = | highestranking = | pb = | <!-- Medal record --> | show-medals = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Women's rowing}} {{MedalCountry|{{AUS}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze | 2004 Athens | Quadruple sculls}} {{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2003 Milan | Quad scull }} {{MedalSilver | 2010 Karapiro | Double scull }} {{MedalSilver|2011 Bled | Double scull }} | medaltemplates-title = | module3 = | updated = 15 May 2018 }} '''Kerry Hore''' (born 3 July 1981) is an Australian former rower, a national champion, world-champion and four-time Olympian who competed in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She was in Australian quad sculls which won a 2003 World Championship and a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics.<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/kerry-hore-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123133/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/kerry-hore-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18}}</ref>
==Personal== Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Hore attended Mt Stuart Primary and The Friends' School in Hobart. She obtained a BPharmacy from the University of Tasmania and works as a pharmacist in Bellerive.
==Club and national career== Hore's senior rowing was from the New Norfolk Rowing Club and the Huon Rowing Club in southern Tasmania. Later in Hobart she rowed from the Lindisfarne Rowing Club. Hore consistently represented for her state at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In the thirteen-year period 2003 to 2015 she raced for Tasmania on four occasions in the senior women's eight contesting the Queen Elizabeth Cup and on eight occasions she sculled for the Nell Slatter Cup. She rowed in both boats at the 2003, 2007 and 2008 championships.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180923124411/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2011.php#W1x 2011 Australian Championships</ref>
On seven occasions from 2007 to 2014 she competed in New Norfolk colours for the Australian national single sculls title at the Australian Rowing Championships. She placed second in four of those races and finally won that Australian championship title racing in Huon Rowing Club colours in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/Women%27s%20Scull%20Summary.html |title=Australian 1X Championship History |access-date=13 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918185750/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/Women%27s%20Scull%20Summary.html |archive-date=18 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011 she won she Australian national quad scull title in an Australian selection composite crew.<ref>[http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/2011-photos/2011_Championships_Results_Day06.pdf 2011 Australian Championships Day 6]</ref>
==International career== Hore won gold and the world title at the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan rowing in a quad scull with Jane Robinson, Dana Faletic and Amber Bradley. At the 2004 Athens Olympics with Faletic, Bradley and Rebecca Sattin, Hore won the bronze medal in the women's quad.<ref name=worldrowing />
At Beijing 2008 and London 2012, Hore was in women's quads who progressed through to finals. They finished in sixth place in 2008 and fourth in 2012.<ref name=worldrowing />
Hore teamed with Kim Crow to win silver medals in the women's double scull at the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships. At the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro she also raced in the Australian quad scull to a fourth placing.<ref name=worldrowing>{{cite web |title=Kerry Hore results |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/16242/results/hore-kerry |website=World Rowing website |access-date=7 September 2015}}</ref>
In Rio 2016 Hore was selected in a crew with Jennifer Cleary, Jessica Hall and Madeleine Edmunds to row the Australian women's quad scull. They finished outside the places in their heat of the Olympic regatta and were eliminated in the repechage. Hore nonetheless became the first Australian female rower to compete at four Olympic Games.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/kerry-hore1 |title=Kerry Hore |work=Official Site of the 2016 Australian Olympic Team |publisher=Australian Olympic Committee |access-date=8 August 2016 |archive-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225153346/http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/kerry-hore1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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== External links == {{Commons category|Kerry Hore}} * {{World Rowing|16242}}
{{World champions – Women's quadruple sculls}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hore, Kerry}} Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Australian female rowers Category:Rowers from Hobart Category:Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Category:Olympic rowers for Australia Category:Olympic medalists in rowing Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen Category:Sportswomen from Tasmania Category:People educated at The Friends' School, Hobart