Kimberley Woods
Slalom - Podium
Kimberley Woods is a women’s C1 and K1 slalom canoeist and is a member of the British senior and U23 teams in both events.
At the 2018 European Championships in Prague she won the C1 Team title for a third successive time with teammates Mallory Franklin and Bethan Forrow and had her best ever K1 result finishing 6th. She went on to the World Championships in Rio where she retained her C1 Team title and also won bronze in the K1 Team event. Her individual medal success came in what was he final year in the U23 World Championships, winning silver in the C1 and bronze in the K1 as well as a bronze in the K1 Team event.
In 2017 she became C1 European Champion for the second time (the first being in 2015) and also was part of the C1 Women's Team who retained their European title and went on to win the U23 and Senior World Championship Team titles. In the World Cup Series she won gold in C1 and silver in K1 the same weekend in Prague.
She has won a total of 8 World Cup medals so far including 3 gold in C1 and 1 silver in K1.
Kimberley is a Sports Studies student at Hertfordshire University.