Brown, Imrie off to Tokyo

Max Brown and Kurtis Imrie are set to make their Olympic debuts after earning selection to the men’s K2 1000mboat for the Tokyo Games. The pair were announced at Lake Karapiro yesterday as the first Newzealand canoe sprint paddlers to earn selection for Tokyo. Brown and Imrie enjoyed a breakthrough international campaign in 2019 – placing eighth in the K2 1000m A final at the World Cup in Poznan, Poland. Later that year, the duo finished joint sixth in the B Final of the K2 1000m at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary, before qualifying a Newzealand boat for the Olympics via the 2020 Oceania Championships in Sydney. The women’s sprint teamwill be selected closer to the Games.