Tricia Smith
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| Full name | Patricia Catherine Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 14, 1957 (age 67) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burnaby Lake Rowing Club / UBC Thunderbirds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patricia Catherine "Tricia" Smith,[1] CM OBC (born April 14, 1957) is a Canadian rower. She won a silver medal in the Coxless Pairs event with Betty Craig at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She also finished 5th in the same event at the 1976 Summer Olympics and 7th in Coxed Fours at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She also won seven World Championship medals and Commonwealth gold in her career on the Canadian team which spanned from 1976 to 1988.
Smith was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from the University of British Columbia law school in 1985, having received a B.A. from the same university in 1981. She practiced law in Vancouver, B.C. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from UBC in 2001 for her career in sport and her work in international sport and the law.
In 2010, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[2] In 2012, she was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.[3]
In September 2013 she was elected to succeed Anita DeFrantz as Vice-President of FISA, the International Rowing Federation.[4] Smith was elected a Vice President of the Canadian Olympic Committee in 2009. On October 3, 2015 she became the Interim President after Marcel Aubut resigned his position. She was subsequently elected President at the COC Session in November, 2015,[5] and in June 2016 was nominated for membership of the International Olympic Committee.[6]
Smith is also a member of the Board of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport, headquartered in Lausanne Switzerland.
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tricia Smith". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
- ^ "Order of Canada citation".
- ^ "14 TO RECEIVE 2012 ORDER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA" (PDF).
- ^ "FISA Congress elects successor to President Denis Oswald". FISA. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ^ Hossain, Asif. "Tricia Smith elected to lead Team Canada as president". Olympic.ca. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Duncan Mackay (3 June 2016). "New IOC members headed by Colombian banker, South African film producer and Indian businesswoman as Infantino and Coe told to wait". Inside the Games. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
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