John MacDonald (born 9 December 1965) is a
New Zealand
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sprint canoeist
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who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the
K-4 1000 m event at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in
Seoul
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.
Four years later in
Barcelona
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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the
K-1 500 m and
K-1 1000 m events.
References
Sports-reference.com profile
1965 births
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Living people
New Zealand male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for New Zealand
People educated at Ōtaki College
20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
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