The Kahawai Paddling Championships – a brand new Canoe Racing NZ event designed to develop the next generation of paddlers – will be launched on Saturday May 8.

Good things come to those who wait….and that is certainly true of the Manuka Performance Heads to Harbour Paddle Festival, which doubles as the New Zealand Surfski Championships, in Whakatane over the Easter weekend.

In the second part of Tim Brabants’ Coaches Corner segment on data and technique, the CRNZ coach focuses on the importance of how coaches and athletes can benefit from technology already in their pocket – the mobile phone.

Lisa Carrington climaxed the Blue Lake 2 regatta by securing three further titles to add to the hat-trick of gold medals she snared on day one on a thrilling day of racing in tricky conditions on Lake Tikitapu today.

Lisa Carrington overcome top-class opposition at the Blue Lake 2 regatta and conditions she described as “incredibly challenging” to triumph in the open women’s K1 200m A Final at a windswept Lake Tikitapu today.

Double Olympic champion Lisa Carrington is the star attraction at the Blue Lake 2 regatta in Rotorua this weekend as the four-time Halberg Sportswoman of the year makes her eagerly-awaited return to competition.