Doris Jones (archer)
{{Short description|Canadian archer (born 1988)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Doris Mary Jones
| image = XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of (Women`s) Archery Individual Compound,DM Jones of Canada (Silver).jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1988|11|15}},
| birth_place = Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada
| occupation = Archer
}}
Doris Mary Jones (born 15 November 1988) was the junior world compound bow archery champion in 2006.{{Cite web|title=Lots of stars for archery's return at Commonwealth Games|publisher=World Archery Federation|url=http://www.worldarchery.org/OTHEREVENTS/Others/2010/NewDelhi-Commonwealth/TabId/1118/ArtMID/1565/ArticleID/485/Lots-of-stars-for-archery%E2%80%99s-return-at-Commonwealth-Games.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209173254/http://www.worldarchery.org/OTHEREVENTS/Others/2010/NewDelhi-Commonwealth/TabId/1118/ArtMID/1565/ArticleID/485/Lots-of-stars-for-archery%E2%80%99s-return-at-Commonwealth-Games.aspx|archive-date=9 December 2013|url-status=live}} She is a Métis from Selkirk, Canada.{{Cite news |author=Towns, John |title='Darling' Jones makes national archery team |date=17 July 2010 |newspaper=Interlake Today |url=http://www.interlaketoday.ca/2010/07/12/darling-doris-makes-national-archery-team |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213205832/http://www.interlaketoday.ca/2010/07/12/darling-doris-makes-national-archery-team |archive-date=13 December 2013 |url-status=live }}{{Cite book|author=Hall, M. Ann|chapter=Toward a History of Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport|editor1=Forsyth, Janice |editor2=Giles, Audrey R. |year=2012|title=Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues|location=Vancouver, British Columbia|publisher=UBC Press|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=LdyWZ8AJWMoC&pg=PA85 85]|isbn=978-0-7748-2423-1}} Jones has been an archer since the age of four, competing all over the world, and is active with the Manitoba Metis Federation.{{Cite news|year=2010|title=Selkirk archer claims second silver medal|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Selkirk-archer-claims-second-silver-medal-104635904.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209182426/http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Selkirk-archer-claims-second-silver-medal-104635904.html|archive-date=9 December 2013}}
Early life
As a teenager, she was involved in an automobile accident in Mexico days before the junior world championships. Although the thumb on her shooting hand broke during the accident and had to be held in a metal brace, she took it off for competition. Jones won the competition despite her injury, and had refused painkillers to avoid any positive drug tests.{{Cite news|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/amateur/persevering-past-the-pain-104555859.html|title=Persevering past the pain|last=Turner|first=Randy|date=2010-10-08|work=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=2018-09-29}}
Achievements and awards
Jones won three world championships and set many Canadian and world records.{{cite journal |last1=Laskaris |first1=Sam |title=Longboat Award Honours Aboriginal Athletes |journal=Windspeaker |date=June 2007 |volume=25 |issue=3 |page=21 |id={{Gale|A165687765}} |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Longboat+Award+honours+Aboriginal+athletes.-a0165687765 }}
At the 2003 Canada Winter Games, she received gold. The games were held in Bathurst-Campbellton, New Brunswick.{{cite thesis |id={{ProQuest|423262076}} |last1=Pauken |first1=Michelle Denise |title=The life and work of Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix: A Spanish woman artist in nineteenth-century Paris |year=2009 }} In 2004, she received the "Junior Female Athlete of the Year" award from the Canadian Archery Association (Archery Canada Tir à l'Arc).{{Cite web|title=Annual Awards Archive|publisher=Archery Canada Tir à l'Arc|url=http://www.archerycanada.ca/en/administration/awards/awards-archive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113132216/http://www.archerycanada.ca/en/administration/awards/awards-archive|archive-date=13 November 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=9 December 2013}}
In 2006, she won the Tom Longboat Award as Canada's top Aboriginal female athlete. Jones took top honours at the World Archery Festival held in Las Vegas, winning gold in February 2006. As well, she won a gold medal at the world juniors in Mérida, Mexico in October of the same year.
Jones was a female finalist for the 2010 Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association award.{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|816770805}} |title=Athletes of the Year - Montgomery makes ballot |work=The Brandon Sun |location=Brandon, Man |date=9 December 2010 }}
In 2010, she won two Archery Silver Medals for Canada in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. During her competition there, she played while having an inner ear infection.
Commonwealth Games Results (Women's Individual Compound Bow)
- Jones won in the quarterfinals, 6–0, against Janette Howells (WAL).{{cite web|title=Archery Compound Bow Individual - Women Delhi 2010|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3046/event/2479|website=The CGF|publisher=The Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=25 March 2018}}
- She won in the semi-finals, 7–3, against Cassie McCall (AUS).
- Nicky Hunt (ENG) beat Jones 4–6 in the finals.
After the 2010 Commonwealth Games, due to a lack of funding, Jones could not continue her archery career.{{Cite news|title=Jones grabs second silver |date=10 October 2010 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/winnipeg-free-press-sundayxtra/20101010/281814280217770 |newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press SundayXtra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064403/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/winnipeg-free-press-sundayxtra/20101010/281814280217770 |archive-date=26 March 2018 |url-status=dead |df=dmy}}
The cost of travel and no support or sponsorships made it difficult to continue in competitions.
References
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Category:Canadian female archers
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in archery
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
Category:Sportspeople from Selkirk, Manitoba
Category:Archers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Category:Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Category:Manitoba Métis Federation people
Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen
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