Kara Kohler
American rower
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| Full name | Kara Michelle Kohler | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1991-01-20) January 20, 1991 (age 33) Clayton, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 181 lb (82 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Single sculls, Quadruple sculls, Coxless four | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kara Michelle Kohler (born January 20, 1991)[1] is an American female crew rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls event. She also has a World Championship gold medal in the coxless four and a World Championship bronze in the single sculls.
Career
Kohler swam through high school and started rowing at University of California, Berkeley.[2] In 2011, she was named a Division I first team All-American.[3] She was a member of the crew that won the I Eight at the 2013 NCAA Rowing Championships. Within two years of starting to row, she was part of the United States under-23 team, winning a gold medal in the women's eights at the 2010 U-23 World Championship.[2]
In 2011 Kohler was part of the US team that won the coxless four at the World Championships, alongside Sarah Zelenka, Emily Regan and Sara Hendershot.[4]
2012 saw Kohler, Natalie Dell, Megan Kalmoe and Adrienne Martelli win bronze in the women's quadruple sculls at the Olympic Games.[5] She was not selected for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and nearly quit rowing.[6]
After switching to the single sculls in 2018,[7] Kohler won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.[8] That year, she was also named US Rowing's female Rower of the Year.[6]
On February 26, 2021, Kohler won the USA Olympic Trials race for single sculls to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics[9]
References
- ^ "Kara Kohler". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
- ^ a b "Kara KOHLER". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Kara Kohler – 2019 – Senior National Team". USRowing.org. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2011 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Bled, SLO – (W4-) Women's Four – Final". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2012 OLYMPIC GAMES – London, GBR – (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ a b Bedecarré, Jay (October 16, 2019). "Kara Kohler named USRowing female athlete of the year". pioneerpublishers.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ Bedecarré, Jay (September 1, 2019). "Clayton's Kara Kohler wins bronze medal at World Rowing Championships in Austria". pioneerpublishers.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2019 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Linz Ottensheim, AUT – (W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Kara Kohler is first U.S. rower to qualify for Tokyo Olympics". olympics.nbcsports.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
External links
- Kara Kohler at World Rowing
- Kara Kohler at Olympedia
- Kara Kohler at Olympics.com
- Kara Kohler at Team USA (archived)
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World champions – Women's coxless four
- 1989:
(Christiane Harzendorf, Ina Justh, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wild) - 1990:
(Doina Șnep-Bălan, Iulia Bobeică, Marioara Curela, Doina Ciucanu-Robu) - 1991:
(Kirsten Barnes, Jennifer Doey, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor) - 1993:
(Pei Jiayun, Wang Shujuan, Zhou Yaxin, Jing Yanhua) - 1994:
(Femke Boelen, Elien Meijer, Muriel van Schilfgaarde, Rita de Jong) - 1995:
(Cindy Brooks, Melissa Iverson, Lianne Nelson, Katherine Scanlon Lewis) - 1996: (Emily Dirksen, Sara Field, Amy Turner, Rosana Zegarra)
- 1997:
(Alex Beever, Lisa Eyre, Elizabeth Henshilwood, Sue Walker) - 1998:
(Yevheniya Andrieieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko) - 1999:
(Yuliya Bichyk, Elena Mikulitch, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak) - 2000: (Iryna Bazyleuskaya, Natallia Helakh, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2001:
(Jane Robinson, Julia Wilson, Jo Lutz, Victoria Roberts) - 2002: (Kristina Larsen, Jodi Winter, Rebecca Sattin, Victoria Roberts)
- 2003: (Liane Malcos, Whitney Webber, Caryn Davies, Wendy Wilbur)
- 2004:
(Marjolaine Rossit, Celia Foulon, Audrey Galy, Marie Le Nepvou) - 2005: (Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca, Kate Hornsey)
- 2006: (Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
- 2007: (Portia McGee, Erin Cafaro, Rachel Jeffers, Megan Dirkmaat)
- 2008: (Hanna Nakhayeva, Volha Shcharbachenia, Natallia Helakh, Yuliya Bichyk)
- 2009: (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2010: (Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2011: (Sarah McIlduff, Kara Kohler, Emily Regan, Sara Hendershot)
- 2013: (Emily Huelskamp, Olivia Coffey, Tessa Gobbo, Felice Mueller)
- 2014:
(Kayla Pratt, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Williams) - 2015: (Kristine O'Brien, Grace Latz, Adrienne Martelli, Grace Luczak)
- 2016: (Fiona Gammond, Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon, Holly Norton)
- 2017: (Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Molly Goodman)
- 2018: (Madeleine Wanamaker, Erin Boxberger, Molly Bruggeman, Erin Reelick)
- 2019: (Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Lucy Stephan)
- 2022: (Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
- 2023: (Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins, Benthe Boonstra)
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