Lisa Carrington, gold medalist at Kayak Sprint in the last four Olympic Games, withdraws the 2025 season from the international competition but plans to return in 2026 for the 2028 Games period, confirmed its representative on Monday.
“After 16 consecutive seasons at the highest level, Lisa chose not to travel with the team in 2025, which makes this year different this year,” said the New Zealand canoe federation in a press release, According to the International Canoe Federation. “She returns to a complete training and appreciates the additional flexibility of her schedule. The plan is to return to the international competition next year, with his views firmly fixed at the 2028.”
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Carrington, 35, is an Olympic gold medalist eight times and the only athlete in all sports to win three gold medals at the Tokyo and Paris Games.
Including the world championships, Carrington won at least one world title each year dating from 2011, except 2020 when the events were canceled due to COVVI-19. This sequence will end in 2025.
At the 2028 Games, Carrington can gain individual gold during a fifth Olympic Games (just like the American swimmer Katie Ledecky). The only athletes of all sports so far in Olympic history are the Dutch skater Ireen Wüst and the Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez.
With two other Olympic gold medals, Carrington would reach 10 for his career. Michael Phelps is the only Olympian to win 10 gold or more gold medals, taking 23 from 2004 to 16.
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Other active athletes can also reach 10 Olympic gold medals: Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel swimmers are currently new, Equestrian Isabell Werth of Germany has eight gymnast biles Simone Biles A Sept and Norwegian Cross-Country Skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has five more than six years more at 2026 Cortina Games.
Olympics the 2028
There will be more female quota places than male quota places at the Olympic Games for the first time.
