Dame Lisa Carrington DNZM (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou) is a world champion flat water canoeist and New Zealand’s most decorated Olympian of all time. She has won six Olympic medals – five gold and one bronze – across three consecutive Olympic Games. Lisa Carrington Chases a Champion and Ko Lisa Carrington me te Toa Whakaihuwaka is set in the small beach town of Ōhope, where she first learnt to paddle.
