Heather Corrie Explained

Heather Corrie (born 25 July 1971 near Manchester)[1] is a British-born slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1986 to 2008.

She won six medals for Great Britain in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two silvers (1995, 2005) and four bronzes (1997, 1999, 2002, 2003). She also won a silver medal in the same event at the 1998 European Championships in Roudnice nad Labem.[2] Corrie won the pre-world championship event in 2001 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France.

Corrie, a dual national, competed for the United States in the K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where she finished eighth. She also won the US National Championships and the Pan American Championships in the same year.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
1997 3 Aug 1997 bgcolor=silver2nd K1
2008 26 Apr 2008 bgcolor=gold1st K11

1 Pan American Championship counting for World Cup points

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Heather Corrie. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418101540/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/heather-corrie-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. Sports-Reference.com. 29 December 2017.
  2. Web site: Profile. CanoeSlalom.net. 15 September 2017.