Karen Furneaux
Appearance
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Born | December 23, 1976 | (age 47)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karen Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009).
Furneaux also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of fifth in the K-2 500 m event at Sydney in 2000.
References
Categories:
- 1976 births
- Canadian people of French descent
- Canadian canoeists
- Canadian sportswomen
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Olympic canoeists of Canada
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Canadian canoeist stubs