Darryl Fitzgerald

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Darryl Fitzgerald
Personal information
Full nameDarryl Stewart Fitzgerald
NicknameFitzy [1]
NationalityFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Born (1990-08-09) 9 August 1990 (age 33)
Gisborne, New Zealand
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event Sprint canoe
ClubPoverty 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]

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