Kate Slatter

Kate Elizabeth Slatter OAM (born 10 November 1971) is an Australian former rower, a sixteen time national champion, world champion and Olympic champion from Adelaide, South Australia. She is a three-time Olympian who in 1996 won Australia's first Olympic gold in women's rowing.

Club and state rowing Slatter began rowing at the Adelaide University Boat Club in 1989, and rowed in their victorious women's eight at the 1996 Australian University Games, two weeks after winning gold in Atlanta.

Slatter made her selection debut for South Australia in 1992 in the state women's coxless four to contest the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She raced in further South Australian women's coxless fours in 1993, 1996 and 1998 seeing a victory in 1996. In 1999 the blue riband women's heavy weight event at the Australian Interstate Regatta became an event for eights. Slatter stroked the first two South Australian women's eight which competed for the ULVA Trophy in 1999 and 2000. In 1991 Slatter first competed at the national level with Megan Still when they contested the Australian women's pair championship title in an AIS composite crew. That same year Slatter and Still won two national senior championships together - the open women's coxless four and the open women's eight in an AIS crew but wearing AUBC colours. In 2000 she won the national coxless pairs championship title with Rachael Taylor. All told Slatter won sixteen Australian championship titles for either South Australia or the Adelaide University Boat Club. She was selected in the women's coxless four with Jodie Dobson, Emmy Snook and Megan Marcks. All four girls doubled up in the Australian women's eight.

With Snook and Dobson changed out for Courtney Johnstone and Gina Douglas, Slatter and Marcks stayed together in the coxless four into 1993 and they competed at the 1993 World Rowing Championships in Racice where again they were last in the A final and achieved a sixth place.

Upon Marcks' 1996 retirement, Slatter was determined to go again and needed to find a new pair partner to build a campaign for Sydney 2000. She chose Rachael Taylor after rowing with her in the women's eight at various international competitions including the 1998 World Rowing Championships.

In 2001, she was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport "Best of the Best". In 2002, she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.