Darryl Fitzgerald

Darryl Stewart Fitzgerald is a New Zealand sprint canoeist. Fitzgerald is a member of Poverty Bay Kayak Club, and is coached and trained by four-time Olympic kayaking champion Ian Ferguson.
Fitzgerald qualified for the Canoeing at the [2012 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres|men's K-2 1000 metres] at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing first from the 2012 ICF Oceania Qualification Tournament in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. Fitzgerald, along with his partner and four-time Olympian Steven Ferguson, finished seventh in the final, seven hundredths of a second behind the Russian pair Ilya Medvedev and Anton Ryakhov, posting their best Olympic time of 3:12.117.