Barbara Olmsted
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| Born | August 17, 1959 North Bay, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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Barbara Olmsted (born August 17, 1959) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics (1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul), she won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at Los Angeles in 1984. Olmsted was born in North Bay, Ontario. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Physical Education and Bachelor of Education degrees from Queen's University, Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario, and Doctor of Education degree from West Virginia University.
References
- Barbara Olmstead at Team Canada
- Barbara Olmstead at Olympedia
- Barbara Olmstead at InterSportStats
Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Canadian female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Sportspeople from North Bay, Ontario
- Academic staff of Nipissing University
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- University of Western Ontario alumni
- West Virginia University alumni
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in canoeing
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Canada
- Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
- Canadian Olympic medalist stubs
- Canadian canoeist stubs