Kerry Golding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot
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Place of Birth: Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
About Kerry Golding
- Kerry Joan Modra (née Golding; born 27 November 1973) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot.
- She was born in the New South Wales city of Nowra.
- She was introduced to Kieran Modra, a visually impaired cyclist, at a friend's 21st birthday party.
- He convinced her to take up cycling; she had only played netball before then.
- She became Modra's pilot, and six months later, she won a gold medal with him at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Mixed 200 m Sprint Tandem open event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia.She was married to Modra from May 1997 until his death in 2019, and they had three daughters.
- As Kieran's pilot at the 1998 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Colorado Springs, she won gold medals in the Mixed Tandem Sprint B, Mixed Tandem Time Trial B and Mixed Individual Pursuit B.
- At the 2000 Sydney Games, she did not win any medals.
- At the games, she was pregnant with the couple's first child, and fainted due to low blood pressure during a quarter-final sprint race; she was replaced as Kieran's pilot by his sister Tania for the rest of the games.
- In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.
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