Personal information | |
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Full name | Darryl Stewart Fitzgerald |
Nickname | Fitzy [1] |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Gisborne, New Zealand | 9 August 1990
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Canoeing |
Event | Sprint canoe |
Club | Poverty Bay Kayak Club [1] |
Coached by | Ian Ferguson [1] |
Darryl Stewart Fitzgerald (born 9 August 1990 in Gisborne) is a New Zealand sprint canoeist. [1] [2] Fitzgerald is a member of Poverty Bay Kayak Club, and is coached and trained by four-time Olympic kayaking champion Ian Ferguson (1984 and 1988). [1] [3]
Fitzgerald qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing first from the 2012 ICF Oceania Qualification Tournament in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. [4] [5] Fitzgerald, along with his partner and four-time Olympian Steven Ferguson, finished seventh in the final, seven hundredths of a second (0.07) behind the Russian pair Ilya Medvedev and Anton Ryakhov, posting their best Olympic time of 3:12.117. [6]