Katie Vincent | |
Birth Date: | 12 March 1996 |
Birth Place: | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
Height: | 1.75 m |
Weight: | 63 kg |
Country: | Canada |
Sport: | Canoe sprint |
Club: | Mississauga Canoe Club |
Partner: | Sloan MacKenzie (C-2) |
Coach: | Kyle Jeffrey and Mark Granger |
Show-Medals: | no |
Katie Vincent (born March 12, 1996) is a Canadian sprint canoeist.[1] She won a gold medal in the women's C-1 200 metres event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, as well as two bronze medals in the women's C-2 500 metres event, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
She participated at the 2017 Racice, 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 2019 Szeged.[2]
She represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the debut women's canoe events Women's C-1 200 metres.[3] Vincent would later win bronze in the women's C-2 500 metres with partner Laurence Vincent Lapointe.[4] In June 2024, Vincent was named to her second Olympic team.[5] [6] At the Paris Olympics, Vincent won bronze in the C-2 500 event and gold in the C-1 200 event with a World's Best time of 44.12.[7] Vincent became the first women to win a gold medal for Canada in the sport of canoeing.