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- ↑ "Cook Islands Kayakers face Olympics test". The Fiji Times. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ↑ "Men's Kayak Single 1000m: Results Summary by Event" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
