{"id":10925,"date":"2024-08-09T04:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2024-08-09T04:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:47:26","slug":"olympics-2024-dame-lisa-carrington-claims-sixth-gold-medal-with-win-in-womens-kayak-fours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10925","title":{"rendered":"Olympics 2024: Dame Lisa Carrington claims sixth gold medal with win in women’s kayak fours"},"content":{"rendered":"

The queen of kayaking has added another crown to her collection<\/p>\n

The country’s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington, has won a seventh medal and sixth gold, after spearheading the women’s kayak four in their 500-metre final in Paris.<\/p>\n

It was the first Olympic medal for the other three members of the crew, Alicia Hoskin, Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughan.<\/p>\n

The win takes New Zealand’s medal tally to 12.<\/p>\n

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The New Zealand crew celebrates after their win.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0AFP\/OLIVIER MORIN<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

New Zealand powered out to first position at the start, but the German crew sneaked up on them approaching the 250m mark.<\/p>\n

Germany then edged out in front to set up a thrilling finish.<\/p>\n

Carrington’s crew proved too quick however, getting to the line in one minute and 32 seconds.<\/p>\n

After getting out of the water, the women hugged each other tightly in celebration.<\/p>\n

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The crew share a hug.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0AFP\/OLIVIER MORIN<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking to Sky Sport, Brett said she was “so proud” of her boatmates.<\/p>\n

“That was an epic race and I’m just so excited.”<\/p>\n

Vaughan said she was “so grateful” to the other three women.<\/p>\n

“Being a part of this team is absolutely the best.”<\/p>\n

Hoskin said the plan was to “stay in our own boat” and trust the strategy that had been put in place.<\/p>\n

“So proud, like it takes a lot of courage to do that. So we’re really happy.”<\/p>\n

Carrington said the team, and everyone behind them, had put a lot of work into the Olympic campaign.<\/p>\n

“This is an incredibly special moment, especially to just be able to do it on our biggest stage, so yeah, it’s surreal.<\/p>\n

“You just don’t know when you line up. You never know what the results are going to be be. So it’s amazing when you can come through, as we have.”<\/p>\n

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The queen of kayaking has added another crown to her collection The country’s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington, has won a seventh medal and sixth gold, after spearheading the women’s kayak four in their 500-metre final in Paris. It was the first Olympic medal for the other three members of the crew, Alicia Hoskin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10927,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions\/10927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}