In 2010, at 16, she became the first Englishwoman to winamedal at the Commonwealth Games, taking home the bronze, and added silver at the World Youth Games the following year before hitting the big stage at London 2012.
Fabien Lefevre of France finished second with Togo's Benjamin Boukpeti winning the bronzemedal to become the first black man to winamedal in a canoe slalom event.
They were crowned world champions in 1994 and were also Olympic champions in 2000, but they missed out on amedal at the last world championship in 2000 and could only winbronze at the Athens Games in 2004.