Lisa Carrington's quest to become New Zealand's most successful Olympian gathered pace today as she powered out of her heat of the K1 500m straight into the semifinals.
Carrington won the sixth and final heat of the discipline in 1m 48.463s, easing off in lane four when it was clear she was not going to be caught by rivals Sabrina Hering-Pradler and Austria's Viktoria Schwarz.
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Carrington recorded the third-fastest time of the heats, though they are not particularly important, as the key to qualification was placing in the top three. From the moment Carrington drove out of the gate and put a boatlength on her rivals within the first 100m, there was never any danger, capsize aside, of missing out.