David Gregory "Dave" Smith (born 24 July 1955) is a retired male race walker from Australia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 (

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). His best Olympic result was finishing in tenth place in the men's 20 km race at the

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. His son,

Dane Bird-Smith Dane Alex Bird-Smith (born 15 July 1992) is an Australian racewalking athlete. He competes in the 20 kilometres race walk, and has a best of 1:19:28 hours for the distance, set in 2017. He competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he was the br ...

, also became an international walker for Australia.Gleeson, Michael (12 August 2013)
Bird-Smith walks out of father's shadow
''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Retrieved 2015-07-15.

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1955 births Living people People from South Australia Australian male racewalkers Olympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia Australian Institute of Sport track and field athletes World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub