Rebecca Giddens

American kayaker

Rebecca Giddens

Personal information

Born

September 19, 1977 (1977-09-19) (age 46)
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.

World Cup individual podiums

Season	Date	Venue	Position	Event
2000	18 Jun 2000	Ocoee	1st	K1
2000	9 Jul 2000	La Seu d'Urgell	1st	K1
2001	9 Sep 2001	Wausau	3rd	K1
2002	4 Aug 2002	Prague	1st	K1
2003	11 May 2003	Penrith	1st	K1
2003	6 Jul 2003	La Seu d'Urgell	2nd	K1

References

^ "Rebecca Giddens bio". daveyhearn.com.
^ "Profile". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved September 17, 2017.

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