Erik Horrie

Erik Horrie
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Horrie
Personal information
Full nameErik Norman Horrie
NationalityAustralian
Born (1979-10-17) 17 October 1979
New Zealand
Home townPenrith, New South Wales, Australia
Height187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportPara-rowing
Disability classPR1
ClubSydney Rowing Club
Coached byJason Baker OAM
Medal record
Para-rowing
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
2012 London Single Sculls ASM1x
2016 Rio de Janeiro Single Sculls ASM1x
2020 Tokyo Single Sculls PR1x
2024 Paris PR1 single sculls
World Championships
2013 Chungju Single Sculls – ASM1x
2014 Amsterdam Single Sculls – ASM1x
2015 Aiguebelette Single Sculls – ASM1x
2017 Sarasota Single Sculls – PR1M1x.
2018 Plovdiv Single Sculls – PR1M1x.
2019 Linz-Ottensheim Single Sculls – PR1M1x.
2011 Bled Single Sculls- ASM1x
2025 Shanghai PR1 single sculls

Erik Norman Horrie OAM (born 17 October 1979) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and a five-time world champion rower. He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team. Switching to rowing in 2011, he made an immediate impact in the sport, first winning the NSW State Rowing Championships and then the National Rowing Championships in Adelaide. He has won silver medals at the 2012, 2016, 2020 Summer Paralympics and a bronze at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won gold medals at the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 World Rowing Championships. Horrie has selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics - his fourth Games.