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Corbin Hart Photo: Nikola Krstic
Just 10 months after he first sat in a kayak, Corbin Hart has qualified a New Zealand boat in the KL3 200m for the Tokyo Paralympics.
Hart, 26, finished seventh in the A final at the canoe-kayak sprint and paracanoe World Cup in Szeged, Hungary today.
It was his first ever international regatta and just the third competition of his fledgling career.
Hart finished strongly in 43.78sec, overhauling Hungary’s Erik Kiss with his final stroke to grab seventh in 43.78.
World and Paralympic champion Serhii Yemelianov of Ukraine was an impressive winner in 40.44.
“Nothing quite like the music to my ears of being told that you have qualified for Tokyo. I still can’t quite believe it,” Hart said.
Press Release – Fish and Game New Zealand
Three hundred large rainbow trout have been released by Fish & Game staff into the Quarry Lake arm of Lake Pupuke on the North Shore this week and fishing has never been better.
The traditional release site on the East side of the lake was shifted to the smaller quarry lake to improve catch rates for anglers.
Fishing is excellent at the moment and one lucky anger caught and released 30 trout in a day’s fishing.
Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Fisheries manager Dr Adam Daniel said the small area of Quarry Lake makes it about 20 times more likely that anglers will catch trout compared to fishing in the main lake.