Lisa Carrington's Olympic legacy continued to grow on Day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as she secured her 3rd and 4th career gold medals to put her equal with fellow paddler Ian Ferguson as the most successful New Zealand Olympian of all time.
New Zealand's Lisa Carrington wins the Women's Kayak single 200m Gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Canoe sprint at Sea Forest Waterway, Japan. Photo: Photosport / Steve McArthur
Lisa Carrington's Olympic legacy continued to grow on Day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as she secured her 3rd and 4th career gold medals to put her equal with fellow paddler Ian Ferguson as the most successful New Zealand Olympian of all time.
She set a world record time in the K-1 200m semifinal and then went on to beat her own record in the final to win the gold medal half a boatlength ahead of 2nd place with a time of 38.120s.
Carrington had little time to celebrate her win as just an hour later she raced in the women's K-2 500m final alongside Caitlin Regal.
The pair produced a dominant display to win New Zealand's sixth gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics finishing almost a second ahead of the chasing pack.
New Zealand's other kayaking duo of Teneale Hatton and Alicia Hoskin missed out on the final after finishing seventh in the Women's K-2 500m semifinal.
David Nyika fights Russian Muslim Gadzhimagomedov. Photo: Photosport
New Zealand's heavyweight boxer David Nyika won the country's first boxing medal in 29 years despite losing his semifinal against Muslim Gadzhimagomedov via split decision.
Winning the bronze medal despite losing his bout, the occasion brought Nyika's time at the games to an end on a bittersweet note as he wrapped up his Olympic career with the intention of turning professional.
In the athletics, Sam Tanner finished ninth in the men's 1500m round one heats and missed out on the semifinals in his first Olympic Games.
Meanwhile, veteran Nick Willis finished seventh in the men's 1500m heats to advance to the semifinals in his third Olympic Games as he looks to add to his haul of one silver and one bronze medal.
Anton Down-Jenkins, the first New Zealand men's diver to compete at the Olympics in 37 years, finished in 8th place of the Men's 3m springboard final.
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke after winning silver in the men's 49er sailing event. Photo: Photosport
America's cup winning duo Peter Burling and Blair Tuke failed to defend their Rio 2016 gold medal, finishing 3rd in the medal race and 2nd overall in the series to win silver with Great Britain taking out the gold.
Burling and Tuke were just metres away from winning gold as they needed Germany to beat Great Britain in the medal race which came down to a photo finish with Britain taking the win by the smallest of margins.
In the men's 470 sailing event Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox finished 6th in Race 9 and 3rd in Race 10 of their opening series leaving them in 4th place overall heading into Wednesday's medal race at 5:30pm.
Meanwhile in the men's finn medal race, Josh Junior finished 8th in the medal race despite sitting in the top 3 for much of the course, he finished 5th overall in the event.
The men's team pursuit competing at the Izu Velodrome. Photo: Photosport
The men's team pursuit squad have advanced to Wednesday night's bronze medal final at 8:59pm, finishing agonizingly close to the world record time that Italy set in their heat.
The women's team pursuit squad finished 7th overall in the first round of heats, missing out on medal contention despite setting a new national record of 4:19.223.
It wasn't enough for New Zealand to make the medal round in women team pursuit where both GBR and Germany broke the world record time.
Along with them the men's sprint team also missed out on medal contention after losing their first round race to France.