Dame Lisa Carrington DNZM (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngati Porou) is a world champion flat water canoeist and New Zealand's most decorated Olympian of all time. She has won nine Olympic medals - eight gold and one bronze - across four consecutive Olympic Games. Lisa Carrington Chases a Champion is set in the small beach town of Ohope, where she first learnt to paddle.