Liam Heath

Who is Liam Heath?

Liam Heath is a British sprint canoeist. He was invited to train with the GB sprint canoe team in November 2009, at the age of 25, and entered his first senior season as a member of the team in 2010 competing in the K2 200m with Jonathon Schofield. During his first season with Jon they won gold medals in the K2 200m at the 2nd World Cup in Szeged and the 3rd World Cup in Duisburg and became European Champions in July 2010. They won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-1 4 x 200m relay and a bronze in the K-2 200m event.

In the 2011 international season he and Jon won two silver medals at World Cups 1 and 2 at Poznan and Racice and retained their K2 200m title at the European Championships in Belgrade in June 2011. At the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged in August they won the silver medal, thereby gaining qualification for the GB K2 boat in the Men's 200m event at the 2012 Olympics. A fortnight after the World Championships Heath and Schofield took part in the London Invitational Olympic Canoe Sprint test event at Eton-Dorney where they won the Bronze medal in the K2 200m.

At the end of 2011 Liam and Jon received Olympic Athlete of the Year awards from the British Olympic Association.