Alison Korn

Alison Korn: Profile

Alison Korn is an Olympic medallist, sportswriter, and mother of twins.

She was a member of the Canadian National Rowing Team from 1996 to 2000. Previously an ice hockey and basketball player, Alison was persuaded by a friend to try rowing when she was 21 and in her last year of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. She realized right away she had found a sport she loved and had a talent for.

Four years later, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Alison raced in the Canadian women's eight that won a silver medal. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, her team won the bronze medal.

In the years between the Olympics, Alison competed in three world championships, winning five world medals, including back-to-back golds in the pair with Emma Robinson in 1997 and 1998. During this time, Alison earned a Master of Journalism from Carleton University.

After retiring from rowing after the 2000 Olympics, Alison worked for one year as a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Her most memorable assignment was joining and reporting on an all-women‚s team that skied to the North Pole, carrying all their food and equipment in sleds and backpacks. She later worked at CBC Radio and TV Sports.

Alison is now a Toronto-based freelance writer with a column every Friday on amateur sports in the Toronto Sun. She has also written for the Globe and Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, CBC and the Canadian Olympic Committee. Alison speaks four languages ˆ English, French, German and Spanish.

In April 2004, Alison and her husband were blessed by the birth of their girl-boy twins, Clara and Daniel.