Melvyn Jones

Melvyn Jones
Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K1 team
Gold medal – first place 1993 Mezzana K1 team
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Mezzana K1

Melvyn Jones (born 26 January 1964 in Stourbridge) is a British slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.

He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (K1 team: 1987, 1993) and a bronze (K1: 1993).

Jones also finished seventh in the K1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

His wife, Elisabeth, won a gold medal for Germany in the women's K1 event at those same games.