Amber Halliday (born 13 November 1979) is a World Champion and Olympic lightweight rower

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 from Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, South Australia

South Australia

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. Specialising in sculling

Sculling

Sculling generally refers to a method of using oars to propel watercraft in which the oar or oars touch the water on both the port and starboard sides of the craft, or over the stern...

, Halliday made her international debut in 1999, winning the Under-23 World Championship in Hamburg in the lightweight double scull with Hannah Every

Hannah Every-Hall

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She has since won three world championships - the lightweight quad scull in 2001 (with Jo Francou, Catriona Roach and Sally Causby

Sally Causby

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) 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

Sally Newmarch

Sally Newmarch is an Australian triple Olympic rower. Sally Newmarch and Amber Halliday broke the light weight women's double scull world record at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Newmarch currently holds the Australian ergometer record. Newmarch now resides in Perth, Western Australia...

, setting a world-best time in their heat before coming fourth in the final. 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.

Halliday is a member of the Adelaide University Boat Club

Adelaide University Boat Club

The Adelaide University Boat Club is a rowing club affiliated with the University of Adelaide. The club was founded in 1881, and in 1896 helped to form the Adelaide University Sports Association. The main clubrooms, donated by Robert Barr Smith in 1909, are located on the north bank of the River...

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In late 2008 Halliday swapped her row boat for a bicycle, training with the South Australian Sports Institute squad. While riding for MB Cycles, Halliday won her first ever cycle tour, the NZCT Women's Cycle Tour of New Zealand in February 2009.

Most recently she was named the Amy Gillett Foundation Scholarship winner

On 17 January 2011 Amber was hospitalised after a racing accident sustained at Victoria Park Racecourse, Adelaide

In September 2011 her recovery was documented by the Australian Broadcasting Commission's program, Contact Sport.

Cycling Career highlights

2009

4th National Time Trial Championships, AUS

1st Sprint Classification, National Road Race, AUS

1st Overall Women's New Zealand Cycling Tour, 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