Jason McCoombs
{{Short description|Canadian canoeist (born 1993)}}
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| sport = Canoeing
| event = C-1 500m, C-1 200m
| club = Banook Canoe Club
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1993|04|24}}
| birth_place = Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze| 2013 Duisburg | 4 x C–1 200 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|U23 World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2013 Niagara|C-1 200 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2015 Toronto|C-1 200 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|Junior Pan American Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2010 Mexico|C-1 200 m}}
{{MedalGold|2010 Mexico|C-1 500 m}}
{{MedalGold|2010 Mexico|C-2 200 m}}
{{MedalSilver|2010 Mexico|C-1 1000 m}}
{{MedalSilver|2010 Mexico|C-4 1000 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|Canada Games}}
{{MedalGold|2009 Charlottetown|C-1 200 m}}
{{MedalGold|2009 Charlottetown|C-1 500 m}}
{{MedalGold|2009 Charlottetown|C-2 1000 m}}
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Jason McCoombs (born April 24, 1993) is a Canadian sprint canoeist.
His home club is the Banook Canoe Club in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. As a 16-year-old at the 2009 Canada Games McCoombs represented Nova Scotia where he won three gold medals, two individually in the 200 and 500 m, as well as one in the C-2 1000 m.[https://www.tsn.ca/canada_games/story/?id=288793 NOVA SCOTIA PADDLES TO A MEDAL IN EVERY EVENT AT CANADA GAMES] He won another three gold medals at the 2010 Junior Pan American Canoe Championships in Mexico in the C-1 200m, 500m and the C-2 200m. In addition he won two silver medals in the C-1 1000m and C-4 1000m.[http://olympic.ca/team-canada/jason-mccoombs/ Jason McCoombs]
McCoombs competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the C-1 200 metres event placing 12th.[http://olympic.ca/team-canada/jason-mccoombs/ Jason McCoombs] At the 2013 Under-23 World Championships in Niagara he claimed the silver medal in the C-1 200m.[http://www.the-sports.org/canoeing-world-sprint-championships---u-23-presentation-medal-winners-c-1-200m-canoe-single-men-s20-c0-b0-g84-t4792-v1-l31.html World Sprint Championships U23 C1 200m]
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120208051449/http://canoekayak.ca/english/athlete/show/21 CanoeKayak Canada] profile of Jason McCoombs
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Category:Canadian male canoeists
Category:Olympic canoeists for Canada
Category:Sportspeople from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Category:Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists in canoeing
Category:Pan American Games canoeists for Canada
Category:Canoeists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Category:21st-century Canadian sportsmen
Category:Aquatic sportspeople from Nova Scotia
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