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Saturday, June 10, 2000

Colin to Olympics

Star-Bulletin staff

CHULA VISTA, Calif. - Kailua's Kathy Colin today joined fellow Hawaii kayak Peter Newton on the U.S. Olympic team.

This morning, Colin, a Punahou School graduate, earned her berth in the K2 500-meter competition at the U.S. Canoe/Kayak Flatwater team trials.

Newton, a Lutheran High graduate, wrapped up his third Olympic team berth as a K-4 1,000-meter kayaker yesterday

Colin failed to qualify in her K-1 500 attempt yesterday. Tamara Jenkins held off a furious finish from Colin to secure a berth.

Newton came in eighth in the K-2 500 in 1992 at Barcelon but was eliminated in Atlanta in the semifinals of the K-2 1000.

In 1999, he was a member of the gold medal K-4 1000 team at the Pan American

Games, also winning a silver medal in a K-1 500 boat.

At the World Cup in Poznan, Polland, Newton led the U.S. to second-place

finishes in the K-2 500 and K-4 200.