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.

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile