Jaime Roberts

Jaime Roberts
Personal information
Born (1990-12-06) 6 December 1990 (age 33)[1]
Western Australia, Australia
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCanoe sprint

Jaime Roberts (born 6 December 1990) is an Australian canoeist. She qualified to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2][3][4] Her team consisting of Jo Brigden-Jones, Catherine McArthur, and Shannon Reynolds made the women's K-4 final but failed to win a medal, coming 7th with a time of 1:39.797 over two seconds slower than their best time in the heats.[5]

Roberts also competed in the Women's K-2 500 metres with Alyce Wood. They missed out on a medal when they came fifth in their semi-final.[6]

Early years

Roberts learnt to swim from an early age as her family had a swimming and surf lifesaving background. In 2012, Roberts was crowned Western Australian (WA) State ski champion in surf lifesaving. She switched to flat water paddling in 2013. She was inspired to aim for the Olympics after listening to the radio call of the Australian men's K-4 1000 gold medal-winning race at the London 2012 Olympics. She decided to give kayaking a crack and see if she could make it to the Olympic Games,.   

At the 2013 WA State Kayaking Championships Roberts was noticed by the Western Australian Institute of Sport Head Coach and this paved the path to her future success.[2]

Achievements

In 2014 Roberts represented Australia competing at World Cup and World Championships. As an Australian Surf Life Saving Championships finalist in ski events, Roberts represented the Mullaloo SLSC and has also represented Australia at the Lifesaving World Championships.[2]

Paddling with Catherine McArthur she finished 8th in both the Women's K-2 200 metres[7] and the Women's K-2 1000 metres[8] at the 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. At the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships she and Brigden-Jones finished 8th in the Women's K-2 200 metres[9] and 7th in Women's K-4 500 metres the with Alyssa Bull, Alyce Burnett and Brigden-Jones.[10] She and Brigden-Jones finished 8th in the Women's K-2 200 metres[11] and 7th in the Women's K-4 500 metres[12] at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.

References

  1. ^ "Canoe Sprint: ROBERTS Jaime". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Jaime Roberts". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Surf Studio: Jaime Roberts". Surf Life Saving. 1 August 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Shannon Reynolds and Jaime Roberts to make Olympic debut in Tokyo". Western Australian Institute of Sport. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Jaime ROBERTS". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  7. ^ 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – K2 Women 200m – Final A (PDF). International Canoe Federation. p. 206. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  8. ^ 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – K2 Women 1000m – Final A (PDF). International Canoe Federation. p. 164. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  9. ^ "K2 Women 200m – Final A". 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. Canoe Sprint Portugal. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  10. ^ "K4 Women 500m – Final A". 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships. Canoe Sprint Portugal. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  11. ^ "K2 Women 200m – Final A". 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships. Digicorp / Hungarian Canoe Federation. Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  12. ^ "K4 Women 500m – Final A". 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships. Digicorp / Hungarian Canoe Federation. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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