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| Full name | Shannon Smith | ||||||||||||
| National team | Canada | ||||||||||||
| Born |
September 28, 1961 Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| 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 |
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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.