The 59-year-old is farewelling the top level after a record 667 matches for New Zealand.

Smith is still keen for a roll-up any time, but international competition has become harder of late.

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07 May: Olympic canoeing great Dame Lisa Carrington will be keeping busy during her year's absence from international competition

02 May: New Zealand's GOAT in a boat has opted out of competing in the first international canoe sprint events of a new Olympic cycle

29 Mar: The North Shore's Westlake Boys High School and Christchurch's St Margaret's College have done the double at the 2025 Maadi Cup rowing regatta at Lake Karapiro

23 Feb: More podium success for New Zealand snow sport athletes on the international stage

18 Feb: Shannon Cox has laid down an early marker in the women's single sculls on the opening morning of the rowing national championships at Lake Ruataniwha near Twizel

08 Feb: Defending men's champion Hamish Elliott is leading the men's race deep into the mountain run of the Coast-To-Coast multisport event

30 Jan: Dame Lisa Carrington will leave no stone unturned in striving to enhance her legacy at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

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