Cornish canoeist looking to 2012

Jenna Hawkey, from Portreath, is a former pupil of Redruth School

Cornish kayak canoeist Jenna Hawkey has set her sights firmly on winning medals at the 2012 London Olympics.

The 23-year-old recently returned from the Flatwater Sprint Canoeing World Cup in Poland, where the GB women's team picked up five medals.

And Hawkey believes her kayak squad can go even further in 2012.

"We'll be aiming for medals in London because our squad is really strong now. We've got to train really hard all the way up to 2012," she told BBC Cornwall.

"But the main thing I'm aiming for this year is a medal at the Under-23 championships in July."

At the World Cup event in Poland, Hawkey and her K4 crew just missed out on challenging for silverware.

"We nearly got into the final," she said. "And we were qualifying up until the last 100m of the semi-final but we just got pipped by the Polish crew."

Hawkey, from Portreath, splits her kayak training between the River Fal and Dorney Lake near Windsor.