Lisa Carrington Can’t Stop Racking up the Awards

Here at M2, and over at M2woman, we always like to celebrate Kiwis completely killing it on the world stage. No sportswoman is doing it more than our very own Lisa Carrington at the moment.

She recently claimed her 15th Canoe Sprint World Championship title in Germany, with victory in the K1 200m on the final day of competition. The win provided her third title of the regatta, after the K4 500m and the K1 500m, just 24 hours earlier.

Last night, 14th of February 2024, at Spark Arena Carrington secured New Zealand’s highest sporting honour for 2023, emerging as the recipient of the prestigious Supreme Halberg Award at the 61st ISPS Handa Halberg Awards ceremony. She took the honour ahead of fellow finalists, including last year’s Supreme Halberg Award recipient Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, cyclist Ellesse Andrews, motocross rider Courtney Duncan, and swimmer Erika Fairweather.

Over at our sister Publication M2woman asked Carrington in 2020 how she dealt with her major wins at the Olympics.

“I think everytime is really different. That reaction to that moment really depends on who you are in that moment as well. What I did in 2012, when I got that Gold Medal, versus what I did in 2016 in Rio when I got a Gold and a Bronze medal, and I was four years older and quite a bit more experienced. Those experiences shaped how I felt about that event and those races.”

“I would say a lot of how you feel is just where you’re at a person and what you’re prepared to do and what you did for that moment. Because sometimes at the Olympics, people just nail it on the day and get it absolutely right. Sometimes people miss it. Going into those events, you get pretty worked up. There’s a lot of worry and a lot of anxiety because you worked so hard for that one moment, so the ability to handle that pressure determines how you come out the other side of it.  I think they’re all different, all really special. I’d say it’s probably no different to anyone else’s special times in their lives that isn’t in sport. The real success is the work leading in, the process. If the process was good, if the work was good, I’d say achieving what you should achieve that day is just the icing on the cake.”

Those are words to live by no matter what field you’re looking to succeed in. Congratulations on yet another win Carrington!