Noel Hendrick represented Ireland in the men’s K1 canoe slalom and kayak cross at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, finishing 15th overall in the K1 – reaching the semi-finals – and 21st in the kayak cross.

From Donadea, Co. Kildare, Hendrick grew up on the banks of the Royal Canal and began canoeing around the age of 12. He has an identical twin brother Robert, also a competitive canoeist, with whom he finished fourth in the C2 double at the 2015 World Junior Championships. He won a silver medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. He narrowly missed out on Tokyo 2020, having qualified Ireland a quota place at the World Championships but losing the subsequent race-off. He qualified for Paris at the 2023 World Championships with a 16th place finish.

His coach Eoin Rheinisch is himself a three-time Olympian – the last K1 representative for Ireland before Hendrick – who Hendrick watched compete at the 2012 London Olympics as a teenager. He holds a degree in software engineering from Maynooth University and a Masters in artificial intelligence from Dublin City University.