Lisa Carrington

Lisa Carrington MNZM ( born June 23, 1989 in Tauranga ) is a New Zealand canoeist.

Carrington has Māori ancestry and iwi Ngāti Porou belongs to. It began with water, when her family moved to Ohope at the Bay of Plenty. For canoe racing she came up with 16 years ago when she attended a training camp for Ian Ferguson. She is studying at Massey University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Culture and Politics of Māori from.

Lisa Carrington contests since 2009 international competitions. Your strongest discipline is the kayak One of the 200 - m sprint track. It was on this route at the Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary 2011 World Champion. At the Olympic Games in 2012, she performed in the one about 200 meters and in the double kayak at over 500 meters. With Erin Taylor reached the rank of two sieves. Two days later, Lisa Carrington was in the kayak - One Olympic champion.