Marcia Jones-Smoke
![]() Jones (right) at the 1964 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. | July 18, 1941||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Niles Kayak Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcia Ingram Jones Smoke (born July 18, 1941) is an American sprint canoer. She competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event in 1964.[1]
A native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jones graduated from Michigan State University. She won three gold medals at the 1967 Pan American Games and a record 35 national championships and 24 North American championships.[1]
Her husband, William Smoke, 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.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c Marcia Jones Smoke. Sports-reference.com
- 1941 births
- Living people
- American female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Michigan State University alumni
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in canoeing
- Sportspeople from Oklahoma City
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in canoeing
- Competitors at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- 21st-century American women
- American canoeist stubs
- American Olympic medalist stubs