Canoe Racing New Zealand are excited to share the athletes selected in the New Zealand Kayak Team for the upcoming ICF Canoe Sprint World Cups in Szeged, Hungary and Poznan, Poland.
Congratulations to the following athletes:
- Aimee Fisher, Hawkes Bay Kayak Racing Club
- Alicia Hoskin, North Shore Canoe Club
- Finn Murphy, North Shore Canoe Club (Paracanoe)
- Grant Clancy, North Shore Canoe Club
- Hamish Legarth, Hawkes Bay Kayak Racing Club
- James Munro, Otago Kayak Racing Club
- James Scott, North Shore Canoe Club
- Kacey Ngataki, North Shore Canoe Club
- Kalani Gilbertson, North Shore Canoe Club
- Lucy Matehaere, Otago Kayak Racing Club
- Olivia Brett, Arawa Canoe Club
- Quaid Thompson, Poverty Bay Kayak Club
- Tara Vaughan, North Shore Canoe Club
The team are departing for Europe this week for a training camp before two consecutive weekends of ICF World Cup events – the Szeged Canoe Sprint World Cup on 16-18 May 2025 followed by the Poznan Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Cup on 22-25 May.
This will be the New Zealand kayak sprint team’s first international outing since the historic Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which saw our kiwi paddlers bring home three Olympic Gold medals and topped the Canoe Sprint Nations Medal table. This world cup team features many of those Olympians as well as some new names representing Aotearoa in the open age group for the first time.
Stay tuned as we follow and support our team at their first international events of the LA Olympic Cycle.
