Three New Zealanders who have won Olympic gold medals on the water will be in Hawke’s Bay for separate appearances less than a week apart later this month.
The first will be Central Otago canoe slalom representative Finn Butcher, who will be joined by Hawke’s Bay-based Olympic Games team Chef de Mission Nigel Avery in a ticketed Hawke’s Bay Canoe Slalom function at the Napier Old Boys Marist Park Island clubrooms on November 22.
Butcher, who is coached by Hawke’s Bay Canoe Club member Aaron Osborne, won the inaugural canoe slalom kayak cross event at the Paris games on August 5.
Cambridge-based former World and Olympic Games women’s single sculls rowing champion and three-times Hawke’s Bay Supreme Sports Award winner Emma Twigg will join Hawke’s Bay Rowing Club clubmates at Marine Parade bar The Pavilion on November 23 to celebrate her Olympics silver medal success this year in a boat made by club members Simon and Hamish Lack.