Tokyo 2020 Olympics: These 16-year-olds hope to make the Team GB canoeing team

Phoebe Spicer and Jake Cox are both 16 and are hoping to make the Team GB canoeing team in 2020.

They have only just finished their GCSEs but their main focus is being picked for Tokyo in four years' time.

"I want to make the junior world championships next year and look towards making the senior team as well," says Jake.

"We train seven times a week on the water and in the gym as well. It's really hard work."

They both want to compete internationally and with 23-year-old Joe Clarke getting a gold medal in Rio, that is spurring them on even more.

"I thought it was amazing," Phoebe tells Newsbeat. "To see Joe Clarke win and think that we actually train here with him as well is amazing."

She says there's a "massive party" planned for his homecoming.

"It's a real inspiration to see someone so young winning an Olympic medal as we're younger athletes too," says Jake.

Balancing their training and revision was a bit of a struggle but now it is the summer holidays things are a bit easier.

Phoebe says she is looking forward to training out of season though.

"Training in the winter is amazing," she says. "You don't really have any races so you get to develop a lot. You come out next year and everyone sees how much you've improved."

Phoebe and Joe were both picked by Team GB as part of a talent identification programme training scheme.

Since London 2012, Lee Valley White Water Centre has taken four intakes of teenagers in the hope of getting them up to Olympic standard.

There are various events between then and now which both will be competing in in the hope of competing in Tokyo in four years' time.

If you would like to find out more about getting into canoeing and kayaking, read our special guide.

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