Kirsten Venetta Brown

Kirsten Venetta Brown, also known as Kirsten Brown-Fleshman (1962/63 – 21 October 2006), was an American slalom canoer who competed in the early and mid-1990s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1991 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen. She missed out on competing in the 1992 Olympic games after part of her kayak touched a gate.
She first kayaked as a child at Valley Mill Camp in Maryland. She studied political science at MIT, gaining a BA in 1986, and worked at Arthur Andersen from 1987-1989. She died aged 43 after suffering from breast cancer. She was married and divorced from George Michael Fleshman.