K-1, women, 200 m

What to remember

The 200 m in a single kayak served New Zealand's Lisa Carrington well: she won it at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympics, after taking the world title in 2011.

Between those Games, at the World Championships in Moscow on 10 August 2014, she covered the distance in 37.898 s. As always in canoe sprint, this is a world best time rather than a world record: the ICF only accepts times from major events such as the Olympics, World Championships and World Cups.

Her career later stretched to 500 m. In Paris in 2024 she won the K-1, the K-2 with Alicia Hoskin and the K-4 over that distance, matching the treble Danuta Kozák achieved at a single Olympics.