Jason McCoombs | |
Sport: | Canoeing |
Event: | C-1 500m, C-1 200m |
Club: | Banook Canoe Club |
Birth Date: | 1993 4, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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.[1] 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.[2]
McCoombs competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the C-1 200 metres event placing 12th.[3] At the 2013 Under-23 World Championships in Niagara he claimed the silver medal in the C-1 200m.[4]