Kate Hornsey
{{Short description|Australian rower}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's rowing }}
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{{MedalSilver | 2012 London | Coxless pair }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 2005 Gifu | W4- }}
{{MedalGold | 2005 Gifu | W8+ }}
{{MedalGold | 2006 Eton | W4- }}
{{MedalSilver | 2010 Karapiro | W4- }}
{{MedalSilver | 2011 Bled | W4- }}
{{MedalBronze | 2006 Eton | W8+ }}
{{MedalBronze | 2011 Bled | W2- }}
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Kate Hornsey (born 19 October 1981, in Hobart) is an Australian former three-time world champion, dual Olympian and Olympic silver medal-winning rower.
Club and national rowing
Hornsey took up rowing when she was 12 years old in New Norfolk, Tasmania. Her senior rowing was from New Norfolk club and the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.
Hornsey was selected in the Tasmanian representative VIIIs who raced for the Queen's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships on seven occasions from 2003 to 2008 and in 2014. She stroked all six Tasmanian Women's VIIIs who competed at the Interstate Regattas between 2004 and 2014.
International representative rowing career
=World championships=
The typical squad changes that occur after an Olympic year as rowers take breaks or step away happened after Athens 2004 and Hornsey took her opportunities. She was selected in both the W4- and the W8+ for the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu Japan. Both crews took gold with Hornsey stroking the four to her first World Championship title.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2005-Gifu.php |title=2005 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811065354/http://rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2005-Gifu.php |archive-date=11 August 2016 |url-status=dead }} The following year at Eton Dorney 2006 Horsney stroked both the eight and the four. The W8+ took bronze behind the US and Germany while the W4- won both their heat and final giving Hornsey and Robyn Selby Smith their second World Champion title in this boat class in successive years.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2006-Eton.php |title=2006 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401174553/http://rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2006-Eton.php |archive-date=1 April 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Horsney raced in the Australian women's eight at the 2007 World Championships to a fourth placing. She didn't compete in 2009 but at Lake Karapiro at the 2010 World Rowing Championships she stroked the Australian W4- to a silver medal. She repeated this feat at Bled 2011 earning a 2nd consecutive world silver alongside Pauline Frasca. At those same 2011 Championships she won a bronze medal in the W2- paired with Sarah Tait.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2011-Bled.php |title=2011 World Championships at Guerin Foster |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618175312/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/2011-Bled.php |archive-date=18 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}
=Olympics=
Hornsey's first Australian Olympic selection was for Beijing 2008 when she rowed in the Australian women's eight who finished sixth. In March 2012 she was selected in the coxless pair with Sarah Tait, the pair took the silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Hornsey announced her retirement from competitive rowing on 24 October 2014.
References
- {{FISA|17418}}
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/kate-hornsey-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418122941/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/kate-hornsey-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18}}
=Footnotes=
{{Reflist|30em}}
{{World champions – Women's coxless four}}
{{World champions – Women's eight}}
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Category:Australian female rowers
Category:Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Category:Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia