Australia only has one purpose-built whitewater facility for paddle sports. Those sports are determined to use Brisbane 2032 to deliver another.
Veteran club paddlers Nick Hocking and Colin Calderwood played a unique role in the formation of fields for the Olympic canoe sprint competition.
A canoe sprinter who secured a quota spot for Paris 2024 is the first known athlete to give notice of his intention to appeal against his non-selection for the Games.
Former Afghanistan solider Curtis McGrath is the first canoe sprint athlete to win two gold medals at the same Paralympic Games.
The para-canoe athlete streaked away in the kayak single 200m KL2 final,and has another shot at gold on Saturday.
Australian Paralympic canoe athlete Curtis McGrath lost both legs in Afghanistan after stepping on an explosive device and admits his mind has been elsewhere following his first hit-out on Thursday.
The Australian men and women’s K4 500m teams have qualified for Saturday’s semi-finals while the C2 women failed.
Jean van der Westhuyzen and Thomas Green are Olympic gold medalists after winning the final of the K2 1000m final.
There was little joy for Australia on the water but the Kiwis were in raptures as Lisa Carrington won her third-straight K1 200m gold,then went back for more.
Tom Green was fixated with Ken Wallace’s feats in Beijing,and he’s calling on all of his idol’s experience to help him to a first canoe sprint Olympic final.