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| Born | Cincinnati, Ohio United States | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||
| College team | Cincinnati Marlins | |||||||||||
| Coach | Paul Bergen (Marlins) | |||||||||||
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Alice Jones is an American international swimmer who swam for the Cincinnati Marlins under Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen.[1]
Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Mr. and Mrs. Homer M. Jones.[2] At the 1970 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Outdoor Swimming Championships, Jones won two gold medals, setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter butterfly.[3][4] She was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1970 by Swimming World.[3]
The next summer, at the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, from 30 July to 13 August 1971,[5] she won a silver medal in the 200-meter butterfly, with a time of 2:28.3.[3]
On June 15, 1974, she married Robert Louis Smithers of Sarasota in Cincinnati.[2]
Jones attended the University of Cincinnati.[4]
- ^ Bergen's bio page Archived 2010-07-16 at the Wayback Machine from the International Swimming Hall of Fame website (www.ishof.org); retrieved 2011-01-18
- ^ a b "Weddings, Alice Jones", Cincinnati Enquirer", Cincinnati, Ohio, 30 June 1974, pg. 165.
- ^ a b c Bailey, Willard (July 1972). Gordon, Richard L. (ed.). "Olympic Contenders". Cincinnati. Vol. 5, no. 10. Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. pp. 48–49. ISSN 0746-8210.
- ^ a b "Foreign Trips and a Fast Pool Push Swimmers to a Record Rout" (PDF). Swimming World. Vol. 11, no. 9. Sports Publications. September 1970. pp. 8–9, 11–13. ISSN 0039-7431.
- ^ (in Spanish) 100 hechos deportivos[permanent dead link] (trans: 100 sports events) from El Pais (Colombia); published 2010-04-13; retrieved 2010-04-13.