Kathryn Ross (born 25 June 1981)[1] is an Australian Paralympic rower. She is a four-time world champion who has participated at four Paralympics from 2008 to 2020, winning a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. She set a world's best time in the PR2 1X event at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.
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Ross' leg became disfigured after her father accidentally ran over her with a ride-on lawn mower on the family farm in Warrnambool when she was two.[2] Both her right knee and ankle joints are fused together.[1] In 2021, she worked as a nurse in the Canberra Hospital emergency department.[3]
Her partner at the 2012 London Paralympics was Gavin Bellis.[7] Bellis was slightly faster than Maclean at the Gavirate International Regatta in Italy in April 2012.[8][9] She did not medal at the 2012 Games.[5]
After a break Ross came back into the Australian senior squad in the PR2 W1x in 2019 in time for the 2019 World Rowing Championships.[15] At the 2019 World Championships in Linz, Austria Ross won a preliminary final and then blitzed the A-final to claim her fourth career World Championship title.[15]