Melvyn Jones

Melvyn Jones
Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team
1993 Mezzana K-1 team
1993 Mezzana K-1

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

He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (K-1 team: 1987, 1993) and a bronze (K-1: 1993).

Jones also finished seventh in the K-1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

His wife, Elisabeth, won a gold medal for Germany in the women's K-1 event at those same games.

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