Marcia Jones-Smoke
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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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- 1941 births
- American canoeists
- Canoers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Canoers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Canoers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Michigan State University alumni
- Olympic canoers of the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- People from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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- American Olympic medalist stubs