Great Britain’s Claire O’Hara has confirmed herself as the greatest female freestyle kayaker on the planet with another golden world titles double, the third of her glittering career. O’Hara not only won the women’s K1 title under lights at San Juan, Argentina, on Saturday night, she also set a new world record highest score of 925. The K1 title follows her victory in the women’s squirt competition earlier in the week, adding to the double golds she won in 2011 and 2013 and g

Great Britain’s Claire O’Hara has won her fifth ICF World Championship squirt boat title with a thrilling final run on the opening day of competition at San Juan in Argentina. Photo: Peter Holcombe It was a fantastic first day for Britain, with Alex Edwards and David Rogers adding a silver and bronze in the men’s competition. It was on Claire’s final run that she clinched the gold medal position, hitting the 1000 point mark. Japan’s Hitomi Takaku moved into the lead in the wo

What more is there to say about someone who is already the most successful athlete in her field of all time, an eight-time World Champion who has taken her sport to a whole new level? Except that Claire O’Hara isn’t finished. Not by a long shot. At next week’s ICF World Freestyle Kayak Championships in Argentina 38-year-old O’Hara is promising to go to another level yet, rarefied air indeed in a sport where she is already the undisputed Queen. Her opponents may not want to re