Nouria Newman

Nouria Newmanborn in Chambéry is a French slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2007 to 2015. She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold in 2014 and a silver in 2013. She also won a bronze medal in the K1 team event at the 2014 European Championships in Vienna. She made a solo kayaking expedition Ladakh 2018 sponsored by Red Bull. She paddled down the Tsarap- Zanskar- Indus River in 7 days, covering 375 km; and was, in her own words, after getting hung up on a rock at one point, lucky to be alive.