Alana Nicholls (born 6 April 1986) is an Australian kayaker. She represented Australia at the

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in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m events.

Personal

Nicknamed "Lans", Nicholls was born 6 April 1986 in Perth, Western Australia. She attended

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in Perth before going to high school at Chisholm Catholic College. She has a part-time job working for CITIC Pacific Mining Management, a mining company. , she lives in the Perth suburb of City Beach. Nicholls is tall and weighs .

Canoeing

Nicholls is a member of the Bayswater Paddle Sport Club, and has a canoe scholarship with the WA Institute of Sport and the

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. Her primary training base is in Bayswater, Western Australia with a secondary base on the Gold Coast of Queensland. Nicholls competed at her first World Cup event, World Cup 2 in the Czech Republic, in 2011 where she won the K-1 500 m event. She finished 4th in the K1 200m event and 5th in the K1 500m event at the 2011 World Championships in

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, Hungary. She finished 2nd in the K1 500m event at the World Cup 1 in Poznan, Poland. She was the 2011

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Athlete of the Year. In 2012, she medaled in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m events at World Cups in May: she finished 1st in the K1 500m event and 1st in the K1 200m event at the 2012 National Championships in

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. She finished 1st in the K1 500m event and 2nd in the K1 200m event at the 2012 Sprint Oceania Championships in Penrith, Australia. Nicholls has been selected to represent Australia at

in the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m events. Before the start of the Games, she and her canoe teammates trained in Italy at the AIS European Training Centre located in Varese.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicholls, Alana 1986 births Living people Australian female canoeists Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian Institute of Sport canoeists Olympic canoeists for Australia Sportswomen from Western Australia Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women