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Racing kayaks

Two New Zealand representatives, Sam Murray (left) and Lucien Holgate, stand with their streamlined racing kayaks in June 2005. They were members of a mixed team of seven, specialising in slalom racing. The team was about to go to the pre-world junior championships in Slovenia.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 11 June 2005, p. 47

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Nancy Swarbrick, Canoeing and rafting – Rafting and kayaking since the 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13086/racing-kayaks (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.