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Foxton opens NZ's newest wakeboard park. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lisa Carrington has made a successful start to another new kayaking season.

Police warn if kayakers had fallen in the water they could have been in "serious trouble".

Waimate High School teacher censured for taking students on kayaks without lifejackets.

Luuka Jones has secured the best finish by a Kiwi at canoe slalom championships

Kiwi canoeist Mike Dawson has produced his best international result in France today.

Luuka Jones has confirmed she wants to double up in both C1 and K1 canoe slalom events.

Lisa Carrington is tempted; her coach Gordon Walker is skeptical.

Lisa Carrington finished the canoe sprint world championships with five medals.

Lisa Carrington and her Kiwi kayakers have produced their best world champs performance.

Kayaking star Lisa Carrington has teamed with Caitlin Ryan for world championship gold.

Carrington is through to her third final at the canoe sprint world championships.

Dawson's love for what he does enables him to keep his chin up when times are tough.

Aimee Fisher has collected double gold at the under-23 canoe sprint world championships.

New Zealand's women's kayak coach Rene Olsen is leaving to join British Canoeing.

The cluster of top national athletes in Cambridge is soon to grow.

Lisa Carrington is considering tackling three disciplines at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

NZ women's kayak squad face a step up in quality and intensity this weekend.

It gives them an outstanding haul of four at the World Cup canoeing regatta in Portugal.

Olympic medallist Luuka Jones is enjoying a double challenge for Tokyo 2020.

Women's fours will be the focus at the World Cup canoeing regatta.

New Zealand are sending eight women paddlers to World Cup regattas this year.

Lisa Carrington is spreading her racing wings on this year's European campaign.

Extreme kayaker Ryan Lucas opens up about the ordeal that nearly cost him his life.

Doctors can't explain how extreme kayaker Ryan Lucas survived being trapped underwater for more than three minutes at a remote waterfall in the Kaimanawa Forest Park. Lucas can - his expedition partner, Mike Roy.

Explore The River People, an exclusive Herald video presentation.

In March 2015, Louise Hull, one of the country’s most renowned whitewater kayakers, went under in the rapids of the Kaituna River and never came up. This is the story of her death but it is also a story of renewal, as those closest to her keep her memory alive by celebrating her sense of adventure.

First Tasman rower had no two-way radio communication once out of sight of land.

This is a good time to be a New Zealand woman kayaker.