Amber Halliday
Halliday in 2008 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Women's rowing | ||
Representing Australia | ||
World Championships | ||
2001 | Lightweight coxless quad-scull | |
2002 | Lightweight double-scull | |
2007 | Lightweight double-scull | |
2000 | Lightweight coxless quad-scull | |
2003 | Lightweight double-scull | |
2006 | Lightweight double-scull |
Amber Halliday (born 13 November 1979[1]) is a former rower and cyclist from Adelaide, South Australia. She is a three-time world-champion in lightweight rowing.
Rowing career
Specialising in sculling, Halliday made her international debut in 1999, winning the Under-23 World Championship in Hamburg in the lightweight double scull with Hannah Every.
She won three world championships - the lightweight quad scull in 2001 (with Jo Francou, Catriona Roach and Sally Causby) and the lightweight double scull in 2002 (with Sally Causby) and 2007 (with Margeurite Houston).
Halliday also competed in the 2004 Olympic Games with double-partner Sally Newmarch, setting a world-best time in their heat before coming fourth in the final.[2] Named South Australia's Sports Star of 2007 she was pre-selected for the Beijing Olympics where her crew placed 8th in a 'disappointing' performance.[3]
Halliday is a member of the Adelaide University Boat Club.[4]
Cycling
In late 2008 Halliday swapped her row boat for a bicycle, training with the South Australian Sports Institute squad.[5] While riding for MB Cycles, Halliday won her first ever cycle tour, the NZCT Women's Tour of New Zealand in February 2009.[6]
Most recently she was named the Amy Gillett Foundation Scholarship winner.[7]
Crash
On 17 January 2011 Amber was hospitalised after a racing accident sustained at Victoria Park Racecourse, Adelaide.[8]
In September 2011 her recovery was documented by the Australian Broadcasting Commission's program, Contact Sport.[9]
Cycling palmares
- 2009
- 4th National Time Trial Championships, AUS
- 1st Sprint Classification, National Road Race, AUS
- 1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand, NZL
- 6th Chongming Island Time Trial (1.1 UCI), CHN
- 2nd Women's Time Trial Honda Hybrid Tour (Formerly Herald Sun Women's Tour), AUS
- 2nd Overall Honda Hybrid Tour (Formerly Herald Sun Women's Tour), AUS
- 25th Giro Donne, ITA
- 1st Woman Annual Hell of the Marianas Century Cycle, FSM
- 2010
- 1st National Time Trial Champion Title
- 9th National Road Race
See also
Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's lightweight double sculls
References
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- ↑ "Amber Halliday". Rowing Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ↑ SASIAC
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- ↑ Life Impact
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- ↑ Olympic Rower Wins NZCT Women's Cycle Tour of New Zealand
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- ↑ Adelaide Now, 18 January 2001,http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/amber-halliday-suffers-head-injuries-in-cycling-accident/story-e6frea83-1225990090981
- ↑ Contact Sport, ABC, 16 September 2011,http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-16/contact-sport-friday-16-september/2903912