The 2020 – 2028 CRNZ Strategy sets out a clear vision ‘To be the World’s Best Paddling Nation’

CRNZ would like to congratulate the following athletes and support staff for winning selection for the 2021 World U18 Championships.

CRNZ congratulates the following athletes who have been selected for the ICF Sprint World Championship and ICF U23 World Championship.

Double Olympic champion Lisa Carrington will spearhead the exciting quartet of women’s paddlers selected to the New Zealand Team for the Tokyo Olympics Games.


CRNZ coach Tim Brabants identifies the importance for paddlers of competing in the forthcoming 10km Kayak Krazy series.

A fun and relaxed approach to the sport has reaped rewards for Greer Morley – one of the star performers at the 2021 NCZT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships earlier this month.

CRNZ would like to congratulate the following athletes who have been selected to the Asia Pacific Sprint Team List.

New Zealand international kayaker Alicia Hoskin is among the cream of the country’s emerging paddling talent. Here the 21-year-old 2019 World Championships K2 500m A finalist talks about the crucial role the AIMS Games played in her career development.

Taris Harker was crowned ‘New Zealand’s fastest paddler’ as he edged an exhilarating open men’s K1 200m final to provide a rousing climax to the final day of action at the 2021 NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro.

Just ten months after he first sat in a kayak, Corbin Hart completed the first chapter of his inspirational journey by qualifying a New Zealand boat in the KL3 200m for the Tokyo Paralympics in Szeged, Hungary today.

Olympic-bound Kurtis Imrie backed up his success on the opening day of the NCZT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro to provide the highlight of the Saturday programme today courtesy an emphatic victory in the open men’s K1 500m.

Tokyo-bound paddlers Max Brown and Kurtis Imrie enjoyed a day of perfect preparation in their Olympic quest by starring as the headline performers on day one of the NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at a sun-drenched Lake Karapiro.