{"id":621146,"date":"2026-10-05T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621146\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:00:11","slug":"completely-in-love-dame-lisa-carrington-welcomes-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621146\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely in love\u2019: Dame Lisa Carrington welcomes first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington, has welcomed a daughter into her family with husband Michael Buck.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DeF1vaFTPPK\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=A0khhYQFFNsVTzkDDgOyKsC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video of the newborn&#8217;s feet on social media<\/a> on Monday captioned: &#8220;Our beautiful baby girl is here. We are completely in love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is the couple&#8217;s first child.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington said when announcing the pregnancy in April that the couple would not be finding out ahead of the birth if they were having a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old kayaker had already ruled herself out of this year&#8217;s world championships but said earlier this year she was still targeting the LA 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington has won eight Olympic gold medals across four Games, including three in Tokyo and three more in Paris in the K1, K2 and K4 boats.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington was awarded one of the Olympic movement&#8217;s highest honours late last year, receiving the Association of National Olympic Committee Outstanding Sporting Career Award.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_top\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/1742379\/olympian-dame-lisa-carrington-welcomes-first-child\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791194411_392_copy-of-rnz_banner-new_0-jpg.webp\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791194411_392_copy-of-rnz_banner-new_0-jpg.webp\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country&#8217;s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington, has welcomed a daughter into her family with husband Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-621146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}