Amber Halliday

Age

44

Place of Birth

ACT

Olympic History

Athens 2004

Beijing 2008

Career Events

Rowing Womens Lightweight Double Sculls (W2x)

Amber's Story

Athens 2004 did not go to plan for three-time rowing World Champion Amber Halliday. One hundred days before the Games she was knocked off her bike while training, breaking six ribs. Halliday recovered in time for the Athens Olympics, only to break the women’s lightweight double sculls world record in the heats, and then place fourth in the final. At her second Olympic appearance in Beijing in 2008, Halliday placed eighth in the lightweight double scull. Retiring from rowing after Beijing, Halliday took up competitive track cycling.

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