World championships The typical squad changes that occur after an Olympic year as rowers take breaks or step away happened after
Athens 2004 and Hornsey took her opportunities. She was selected in both the
W4- and the
W8+ for the
2005 World Rowing Championships in
Gifu Japan. Both crews took gold with Hornsey stroking the four to her first World Championship title. The following year at
Eton Dorney 2006 Horsney stroked both the eight and the four. The
W8+ took bronze behind the US and Germany while the W4- won both their heat and final giving Hornsey and
Robyn Selby Smith their second World Champion title in this boat class in successive years. Horsney raced in the Australian women's eight at the
2007 World Championships to a fourth placing. She didn't compete in 2009 but at
Lake Karapiro at the
2010 World Rowing Championships she stroked the Australian
W4- to a silver medal. She repeated this feat at
Bled 2011 earning a 2nd consecutive world silver alongside
Pauline Frasca. At those same 2011 Championships she won a bronze medal in the
W2- paired with
Sarah Tait.
Olympics Hornsey's first Australian Olympic selection was for
Beijing 2008 when she rowed in the Australian women's eight who finished sixth. In March 2012 she was selected in the
coxless pair with
Sarah Tait, the pair took the silver medal at the
2012 Olympic Games in
London. Hornsey announced her retirement from competitive rowing on 24 October 2014. == References ==