Jon Smith

This article is about rower Jon Smith. For other people, see John Smith .

Jonathan "Jon" Scott Smith (born May 9, 1961 in Salem , Massachusetts ) is a former rower from the United States who was 1987 world champion with the eighth .

Athletic career

The 1.90 m tall Jon Smith won the silver medal behind the New Zealanders at the 1984 Olympic Games with the four-man starring David Clark , Jon Smith, Philip Stekl and Alan Forney . While important rowing nations were missing from the 1984 Olympic Games because of the Olympic boycott with the GDR and the Soviet Union, all countries competed in the 1985 World Championships . Jon Smith won the bronze medal behind the Soviet Union and the Italians with the US eighth. In 1987 the US eight won the title at the World Championships in Copenhagen in front of the boats from the GDR and Italy. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, the US eight competed with Michael Teti , Jon Smith, Edward Patton , John Rusher , Peter Nordell , Jeffrey McLaughlin , Douglas Burden , John Pescatore and Seth Bauer , compared to last year's line-up only John Rusher for Michael Still on board. In the Olympic final, the eighth from the Federal Republic won ahead of the Soviet boat, the US eighth won the bronze medal. Four years later, Jon Smith was also in action at the 1992 Olympic Games , finishing ninth in the two-man team with a helmsman .

Web links

• Jon Smith in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Jon Smith at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )