Rebecca Giddens

Rebecca Giddens

Personal information
Born	September 19, 1977 (1977-09-19) (age 47) Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
Medal record Women's canoe slalom Representing  United States Olympic Games 2004 Athens K1 World Championships 2002 Bourg St.-Maurice K1 1999 La Seu d'Urgell K1 team 2003 Augsburg K1

Rebecca Giddens (née Bennett, born September 19, 1977) is a United States slalom kayaker who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.^[1]

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal in the K1 event in Athens in 2004. Giddens also won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (K1: 2002) a silver (K1 team: 1999) and a bronze (K1: 2003).^[2]

Giddens was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and resides in Kernville, California, where she owns a brewpub with her husband, Eric. Her husband finished 20th in the men's K1 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived November 9, 2009)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rebecca Giddens". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
• Yahoo! Athens 2004 profile

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