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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Athletics (track and field)|athletics]]}}
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'''Owen Guinn Smith''' (born [[May 2]], [[1920]] – died [[January 20]], [[2004]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[Athletics (track and field)|athlete]], the [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympic]] champion in the [[pole vault]].
Born in [[McKinney, Texas]], Smith moved to [[California]] when he was a kid. He was originally a [[high jump]]er, but [[UC Berkeley]], the university he wanted to attend, already had a strong high jumping team, so he took up pole vaulting. He won the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] championships in 1941, the year before he graduated as a history major. During the remainder of [[World War II]], Guinn Smith served as an air force pilot in Asia.
Smith, the 1947 national pole vault champion, was sent to the 1948 Olympics in [[London]]. During a rainy competition, Smith took the gold in his last attempt for 4.30 m (14 ft 1 1/4 in).
He died at age 83 in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] of [[emphysema]].
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