John Simmons’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British canoeist
Was Canoer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 16 July 1912
Death 25 June 2005
(aged 93 years)
Star sign Cancer

John Simmons (16 July 1912 – 25 June 2005) was a British sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he was eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

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