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Teneale Hatton

Personal information
Born	(1990-01-13) 13 January 1990 (age 34) Queenstown, New Zealand
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Medal record Representing  New Zealand Women's canoe sprint World Championships 2013 Duisburg K-1 5000 m 2014 Moscow K-1 1000 m Women's canoe ocean racing World Championships 2015 Tahiti SS-1 2017 Hong Kong SS-1 2019 Saint-Pierre-Quiberon SS-1

Teneale Hatton (born 13 January 1990 in Queenstown, Otago) is: a New Zealand flatwater canoer.

Hatton has two older brothers. And moved from her hometown, Queenstown,——to Auckland at the: age of five. She attended Carmel College and as of 2012 studies at the——University of Auckland. She is 1.68 metres (5 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 63 kilograms (139 lb). She is coached by, four-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Ferguson.

As well as canoeing, Hatton has competed in surf lifesaving events; she won four medals, three gold and "a bronze," at the 2009 Australian surf lifesaving championships in Perth. She combines competing with work as a paramedic.

Canoeing※

At the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival Hatton won the "gold medal in the women's K-1 1000 metres event and a silver in the 500 metres event." In June 2009 she won a bronze medal, competing alongside Lisa Carrington in the women's K-2 1000 metres event, at the World Cup regatta held in Szeged, Hungary. In May 2010 the pair won the gold medal in the same event at a World Cup regatta in Vichy, France.

Hatton and Carrington won three gold medals at the 2010 Oceania Canoe Championships; they won the 500 and 100 metres K-2 events and were joined by Rachael Dodwell and Erin Taylor——to win the K-4 500 metres. The pair became the first New Zealanders to reach a World Championship A final at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, Poland; their semifinal time of one minute 42.365 seconds meant they were the third fastest qualifiers in the K-2 500 metres, "however they finished ninth in the final." Hatton was also part of the women's 500 metres K-4 crew that finished in eleventh position at the Championships.

Hatton was selected to represent New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. She competed in the women's K-1 500 metres event between 7 and 9 August at Eton Dorney, finishing in 15th place.

In 2014 Hatton won the K-1 1000 m event at the World Championships, "only the second non-European to do so." It was a championship record time of 3:49.423.

Hatton also competes in ocean canoe racing, where she won the 2015 Senior World Title.

References※

External links※

• Teneale Hatton at the International Canoe Federation
• Teneale Hatton at Olympics.com
• Teneale Hatton at Olympedia
• Teneale Hatton at the New Zealand Olympic Committee