Kate Haines

EVENT: Women’s Pair

The Paris Olympics was Haines’ first Olympics. She has been selected alongside Waikato clubmate Alana Sherman.

The pair had to qualify the boat at the Final Olympic Qualifying Regatta in Lucerne in May 2024. They secured the spot by finishing second in the final behind Denmark in a time of 7m 19.71s.

Haines’ first world championship regatta was in 2022, when she was a member of the Women’s Quadruple Sculls that finished fourth in the B Final.

One of her ambitions is to attend the prestigious Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, where her father also studied, and race in the world-renowned Cambridge vs Oxford Boat Race.