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Also Known As Emma Kimberley Twigg
Born March 1, 1987 (age 37) • Napier • New Zealand
Awards And Honors Olympic Games • rowing (2021)

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Hamish Bond and Eric Murray
Hamish Bond
New Zealand rower
Lisa Carrington
Lisa Carrington
New Zealand canoe sprint racer
Redgrave, Steven; Holmes, Andy
Steven Redgrave
British rower
Champion Olympic rower Jack Beresford
Jack Beresford
British athlete
Pertti Karppinen
Finnish athlete
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet athlete
John B. Kelly, who won the single sculls event at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp
John B. Kelly
American athlete
Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant
American basketball player
Brittney Griner
Brittney Griner
American basketball player
Gold medalist Yuto Horigome
Yuto Horigome
Japanese skateboarder
Katie Ledecky
Katie Ledecky
American swimmer
Jayson Tatum
Jayson Tatum
American basketball player
Carissa Moore
Carissa Moore
American surfer
Australia's most-decorated Olympian
Emma McKeon
Australian swimmer
Neeraj Chopra
Neeraj Chopra
Indian athlete
Suni Lee on the balance beam at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Suni Lee
American gymnast
Ariarne Titmus
Ariarne Titmus
Australian swimmer
Caeleb Dressel
Caeleb Dressel
American swimmer
“Queen of the Triple Jump”
Yulimar Rojas
Venezuelan athlete
Jessica Fox at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Jessica Fox
French-born Australian athlete

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