Karen Furneaux
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Karen Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009).
Furneaux also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of fifth in the K-2 500 m event at Sydney in 2000.
In 2018, she was named one of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia's history.<ref name="CBC">Template:Cite news</ref>
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- 1976 births
- Canadian people of French descent
- Canadian female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Canoeists from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Olympic canoeists for Canada
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in canoeing
- Canoeists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Nova Scotia
- Sportswomen from Nova Scotia