Sandra Kirby

Sandra (Sandi) Kirby is a Canadian sociologist and former Olympic athlete. A member of the Canadian women's rowing team at the 1976 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's quad sculls, with her team finishing ninth.

After competing at the Olympics, she lobbied for a number of years to have the International Olympic Committee drop its requirement that all female athletes automatically had to undergo chromosomal testing to ensure that they were actually female, of sociology at the University of Winnipeg, specializing in study of women in sports. She came out as lesbian after joining the university. She is active in the development of safe sport for athletes as a founding board member of Safe Sport International, and as a speaker on sexual harassment and abuse in sport.

In 2018, Kirby was awarded the Order of Sport, marking her induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.