13 Mar 2024

Canoe slalom paddler joins select group of NZ Olympic athletes

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 13 March 2024

Canoe slalom paddler Luuka Jones has joined a select group of New Zealand Olympic athletes.

A Rio 2016 Olympic silver medalist, Jones will become just the third New Zealand woman to compete at five Olympics.

The others to reach the milestone are shot putter Dame Valerie Adams and board sailor Barbara Kendall.

At the Paris Games later this year Jones and Finn Butcher, at his first Games, will be New Zealand's representatives.

Sports reporter Felicity Reid speaks to Lisa Owen