Jordan Wood
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 August 1994 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||
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Jordan Wood (born 1 August 1994) is an Australian canoeist. He competed in the men's K-2 200 metres and men's K-4 1000 metres events at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Wood teamed up with Lachlan Tame, Murray Stewart and Riley Fitzsimmons in the men's K-4 500m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The team came second in their heat with a time of 1.22:662. In their semi-final they paddled quite a bit slower but still managed to come second and qualify for the final. They couldn't keep up their good form and came sixth in the final, nearly 3 seconds behind the eventual winner, Germany.[2]
Wood grew up on the Gold Coast, Queensland and therefore was always surrounded by water. In his junior years he preferred racing mountain bikes but his downhill mountain biking injuries took its toll and started kayaking seriously at the age of 15.
His parents were Olympic kayakers. His late father Steve Wood won K4 1000 metres bronze at Barcelona 1992. Wood's mother Anna Wood initially competed for The Netherlands but then went onto win the K2 500m bronze for Australia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She was then placed sixth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Anna Wood is now the coach of the Australian women's canoe sprint team.[3]
