Albert Smoke

{{short description|Canadian long-distance runner}}

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| nationality =Canadian

| sport = Long-distance running

| event = Marathon

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| birth_date =March 1894

| birth_place =Smith Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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| death_date = December 17, 1944

| death_place =Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

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Albert Smoke (March 1894 – December 17, 1944) was a Canadian long-distance runner{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66249 |title=Albert Smoke |work=Olympedia |access-date=July 13, 2021}} who competed in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sm/art-smoke-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418053813/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sm/art-smoke-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Albert Smoke Olympic Results |accessdate=October 10, 2012 |work=sports-reference.com}}

Smoke, a Mississauga Anishinaabe First Nations member, was born in 1894 and raised at Curve Lake.{{cite web|url=https://pdshof.com/inductees/albert-smoke/ |title=Albert Smoke |work=Peterborough and District Sports Hall of Fame & Museum |access-date=January 8, 2022}} He was 4'10",{{cite web|url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/on/rouge/culture/autochtone-indigenous/athlete |title=Indigenous athletes |work=Parks Canada |access-date=January 8, 2022}} and considered amongst the best long-distance runners of his era. He was the national marathon champion from 1920 to 1922, and finished in third place at the 1922 Boston Marathon.{{cite web|url=https://earlscourtparkhistory.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/gladstone-athletic-club/ |title=Gladstone Athletic Club |work=Earlscourt Park History |access-date=January 8, 2022}} He later moved to Lindsay, Ontario, where he died in 1944 at the age of 53. He was inducted into the Peterborough and District Sports Hall of Fame & Museum in 1988.