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Full name | Shannon Smith | ||||||||||||||
National team | Canada | ||||||||||||||
Born | Vancouver, British Columbia | September 28, 1961||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Club | Hyack Swim Club, Pacific Coast Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shannon Smith (born September 28, 1961) is a former competition swimmer who represented Canada as a 14-year-old at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. She won a bronze medal for her third-place performance in the women's 400-metre freestyle with a time 4:14.60, coming behind East German Petra Thumer (4:09.89) and American Shirley Babashoff (4:10.46). Smith also competed in the Women's 800-metre freestyle, finishing sixth in the event final and clocking a time of 8:48.15.[1]