Strong canoe sprint team named

• Published date: 25 April 2024
• Author: OLYMPICS
• Publication title: Bay of Plenty Times

A team of six athletes are set to paddle for New Zealand in Paris across the K1, K2 and K4 events

Six-time Olympic medallist, Carrington, will contest all three disciplines.

She will be joined by Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin in the K2, as the duo look to defend the gold medal won by Dame Lisa and Caitlin Regal at the Tokyo Games.

Dame Lisa and Hoskin will team up with Olympic debutants Tara Vaughan and Olivia Brett in the K4.

The quartet go into the Games as world champions, having last year won New Zealand’s first world title in the big boat.

Rio 2016 Olympian Aimee Fisher also makes her Olympic return.

She will contest the K1 500m, as well as the K2 500, where she’ll be joined in the boat by the bolter of the squad, Dunedin’s Lucy Matehaere.

Paris 2024 will be Carrington’s fourth Olympic Games and she said it is always a privilege to be named in a New Zealand Olympic team.

“For me, every Olympics is about learning, growing, seeing...