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Marcia Jones-Smoke

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Olympic medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Tokyo K-1 500 m

Marcia Jones-Smoke (born July 18, 1941) is an American sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at Tokyo in 1964.

A native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jones graduated from Michigan State University. She won three gold medals at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. Jones won a record 35 national championships and 24 North American championships.

Her husband, William, finished fourth in the second repechage event of the K-4 1000 m at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Jones' son, Jeff, finished seventh in the K-2 1000 m semifinal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Her sister, the late Sperry Rademaker, finished seventh in the K-2 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

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