Lisa Carrington

Lisa Carrington

Carrington at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Nationality	New Zealand
Born	(1989-06-23) 23 June 1989 (age 27) Tauranga, New Zealand
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Club	Eastern Bay Canoe Racing Club (Whakatane)
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 0 1 World Championships 5 1 1 Total 7 1 2 Olympic Games 2012 London K-1 200 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-1 200 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-1 500 m World Championships 2011 Szeged K-1 200 m 2013 Duisburg K-1 200 m 2014 Moscow K-1 200 m 2015 Milan K-1 200 m 2015 Milan K-1 500 m 2014 Moscow K-1 500 m 2013 Duisburg K-1 500 m

Lisa Carrington, MNZM (born 23 June 1989) is a New Zealand flatwater canoer. She won gold in the Women's K-1 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as gold in the same event at the 2011 Canoe Sprint World Championships.

Born in Tauranga, Carrington was raised in Ohope Beach, a satellite town of Whakatane in the eastern Bay of Plenty, and is of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Ngāti Porou descent. She attended Whakatane High School, and Massey University in Albany. She is coached by Gordon Walker.

In June 2009 she won a bronze medal at the World Cup regatta held in Szeged, Hungary, competing alongside Teneale Hatton in the women's K-2 1000 metres event. In May 2010 the pair won the gold medal in the same event at a World Cup regatta in Vichy, France.

Carrington and Hatton won three gold medals at the 2010 Oceania Canoe Championships; they won the 500 and 1000 metres K-2 events and were joined by Rachael Dodwell and Erin Taylor to win the K-4 500 metres. The pair became the first New Zealanders ever to reach a World Championship A final at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, Poland;. Their time of one minute 42.365 seconds in the semifinals meant they qualified third fastest for the final of the K-2 500 metres, however they finished the final in ninth position.