Justina Kitchen

Justina Kitchen (born 11 April 1989) is a New Zealand Olympic kitefoiler.

Life Kitchen's father Rex Sellers competed in sailing at four Olympics and he gained a gold and a silver medal before she was born in 1989. Kitchen's ambition was to compete at the Olympics in 2012 as a windsurfer but she was not chosen.

In 2018 she was completing her degree when her husband showed her the new sport of kitefoiling. She took up the sport believing that she would be able to compete in 2016 at the Rio Olympics. It was announced that kitefoiling would be introduced, however Kitchen's ambitions were thwarted when it was decided that kitefoiling would not be included. A knee injury like this can demand the end of a career or invasive surgery; Kitchen opted for neither but decided to use physiotherapy to recover. The places to join the first Olympic Formula Foil competition at the 2024 Olympics were highly valued. The "last chance" contest (French Olympic Week) was held in Hyères in April 2024 when the last five Olympic places were the prizes for kitefoilers. By this time the chosen continental competitors included not only Kitchen but Fawn Jantawan from Thailand, Catalina Turienzo from Argentina, the Canadian Emily Claire Bugeja, Julie Paturau from Mauritius and the Spaniard Gisela Pulido.