Jackie Kiddle
Jackie Kiddle is a New Zealand rower. She is a current world champion in the lightweight women's double scull.
Kiddle was born in 1994 in New Plymouth. She received her education at Wellington Girls' College, and she took up rowing in 2008 in her final year. She represented New Zealand at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival. Kiddle's first appearance at a FISA event was at the 2014 World Rowing U23 Championships in Varese, Italy, where she came fourth in the lightweight single sculls. At the 2015 World Rowing U23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, she won gold in the lightweight double sculls with Zoe McBride, setting a new world best time. At the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships at the Willem-Alexander Baan in Rotterdam, Netherlands, she won a silver medal lightweight double sculls with Lucy Jonas. At the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, she won a silver medal in the lightweight double sculls partnered with Zoe McBride. At the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, McBride and Kiddle came sixth in the lightweight double sculls.
