Kathleen Heddle
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Born | Trail, British Columbia | November 27, 1965|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Burnaby Lake Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kathleen Joan Heddle, OBC (born November 27, 1965) is a Canadian rower. Heddle and her long-time rowing partner Marnie McBean were the first Canadians to win three Olympic Gold medals.
In 1997, Heddle was awarded the Order of British Columbia and was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Heddle also was awarded the Thomas Keller Medal by FISA, the International Rowing Federation, for her outstanding career in international rowing.
References
- "Kathleen Heddle Olympic medals and stats". Retrieved April 25, 2006.
- "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". Retrieved April 25, 2006.
- sports-reference
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Members of the Order of British Columbia
- Sportspeople from British Columbia
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Olympic rowers of Canada
- Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canadian sportswomen
- Canadian rowers
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Female rowers
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canadian rowing biography stubs
- Canadian Olympic medalist stubs