Olympic gold medalist Lisa Carrington will headline the National Canoe Sprint Championships near Rotorua this weekend.
Carrington will race her favoured K1 200 event along with other races on Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake).
Fellow Olympians Darryl Fitzgerald, Teneale Hatton and Ben Fouhy will also compete at the event which doubles as the Oceania Champs with paddlers from Australia, Tahiti, Palau, Samoa, Cook Islands and Finland also taking part.
