Caitlin Regal
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Birth name | Caitlin Ryan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1992-02-09) 9 February 1992 (age 32) Takapuna, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caitlin Regal (née Ryan; born 9 February 1992) is a New Zealand canoeist. On 3 August 2021 she won a gold medal alongside Lisa Carrington in the K-2 500 metres event.[1]
Early life
Regal was born on 9 February 1992 in Takapuna, a suburb of North Shore.[2][3] Aged 5, she joined the Red Beach Surf Life Saving & Squash Club on the Hibiscus Coast north of Auckland, where she later competed in surf competition. By age 14, she had qualified as a life guard.[4] She has won numerous titles at the New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships.[4]
Canoeing
At the 2015 Canoe World Cup in Portugal, she won gold in the Women's K-4 500 metres event, and silver in the Women's K-2 500 metres event.[4] She represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics finishing fifth in the Women's K-4 500 metres alongside Jaimee Lovett, Kayla Imrie and Aimee Fisher.[5]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, she once again represented New Zealand. She competed in the Women's K-1 500 metres, Women's K-2 500 metres, and Women's K-4 500 metres. [6]
Personal life
Caitlin Ryan married her partner, Nick Regal, in early 2021.[7]
References
- ^ "Canoe Sprint Results". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 23 July 2021.[dead link]
- ^ "Caitlin Ryan". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Caitlin Ryan". Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "World Cup Kiwi kayaker Caitlin Ryan tastes gold". Rodney Times. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Kiwi kayak quartet finish fifth". The New Zealand Herald. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Canoe Sprint - REGAL Caitlin". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Caitlin Ryan". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
External links
- Caitlin Regal at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Caitlin Regal at Olympics.com
- Caitlin Regal at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1960: Mariya Shubina & Antonina Seredina (URS)
- 1964: Roswitha Esser & Annemarie Zimmermann (EUA)
- 1968: Roswitha Esser & Annemarie Zimmermann (FRG)
- 1972: Lyudmila Pinayeva & Kateryna Koryshko (URS)
- 1976: Nina Gopova & Galina Kreft (URS)
- 1980: Carsta Genäuß & Martina Bischof (GDR)
- 1984: Agneta Andersson & Anna Olsson (SWE)
- 1988: Birgit Fischer & Anke Nothnagel (GDR)
- 1992: Ramona Portwich & Anke von Seck (GER)
- 1996: Susanne Gunnarsson & Agneta Andersson (SWE)
- 2000: Birgit Fischer & Katrin Wagner-Augustin (GER)
- 2004: Katalin Kovács & Natasa Janics (HUN)
- 2008: Katalin Kovács & Natasa Janics (HUN)
- 2012: Franziska Weber & Tina Dietze (GER)
- 2016: Gabriella Szabó & Danuta Kozák (HUN)
- 2020: Lisa Carrington & Caitlin Regal (NZL)
- 2024: Lisa Carrington & Alicia Hoskin (NZL)
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