FITZSIMMONS Riley

Olympic Games

Year	Location	K4 1000m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	4

World Championships

Year	Location	K1 5000m	K2 500m	K2 1000m	K4 500m	K4 1000m
2019	Szeged, HUN	-	-	5	-	-
2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	14	19	4	4	-
2017	Racice, CZE	-	-	-	-	1
2015	Milan, ITA	-	-	-	-	4

Oceania Open Championships

Year	Location	K1 500m	K1 1000m	K2 500m	K2 1000m	K4 500m
2020	Penrith, NSW, AUS	10	6	-	3	1
2018	Penrith, NSW, AUS	5	6	1	1	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	K2 1000m	K4 500m
2019	2 x 6th	-
2018	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 5th	1 x 4th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2018	Kayak Double 1000m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	3:14.557
4	2018	Kayak Double 1000m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	3:17.432
4	2018	Kayak Four 500m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	1:21.780
5	2018	Kayak Double 1000m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	3:13.734
6	2019	Kayak Double 1000m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	3:09.729
6	2019	Kayak Double 1000m	World Cup	Poznan, POL	3:13.490

Legend
C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Rizz, Fitzy (rio2016.olympics.com.au, 16 Mar 2016)

Athlete

Partner Georgia

English

Avoca Kayak Club [AUS] / New South Wales Institute of Sport [AUS]

He has competed in surf lifesaving, and won a silver medal in the open mixed ski relay at the 2019 International Surf Rescue Challenge in Durban, South Africa. (paddle.org.au, 03 Oct 2019; sls.com.au, 08 Jul 2019)

2015 for Australia (canoe.org.au, 24 Apr 2015)

He began paddling at age 15 at an event at Terrigal High School in New South Wales, Australia. (canoe.org.au, 23 Jun 2014)

He took up the sport because some of his friends were involved in it. "I love being able to travel and to compete at the highest level possible. I liked the idea of the sport. It was challenging and it had little variables, just a straight-out drag race all the way to the line." (canoeicf.com, 01 Jan 2018; dailytelegraph.com.au, 29 Jul 2015; canoe.org.au, 23 Jun 2014)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (centralcoastnews.net, 08 Aug 2019)

Australian sprint paddler Lachlan Tame, Australian Ironman triathlete Hugh Dougherty. (engineswim.com, 01 Jan 2014)

Australian sprint paddler Lachlan Tame. (canoe.org.au, 23 Jun 2014)

"There are no shortcuts to a place worth going." (canoe.org.au, 23 Jun 2014)

At the 2019 Paddle Australia Awards he received the Team of the Year award along with K4 500m teammates Jackson Collins, Thomas Green, and Jean van der Westhuyzen. The award recognised the quartet's gold medal at the 2019 U23 World Championships in Pitesti, Romania. (paddle.org.au, 10 Nov 2019)

He received the Team of the Year award along with K4 1000m teammates Ken Wallace, Murray Stewart and Jordan Wood at the 2017 Paddle Australia Awards. The award recognised their gold medal at the 2017 World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. (paddle.org.au, 05 Nov 2017)