Joyce Richards (17 December 1920 – 10 November 2005) was a British

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who competed in the late 1940s. She was eliminated in the heats of the K-1 500 m event at the

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References

Joyce Richards' profile at Sports Reference.com
1920 births 2005 deaths Canoeists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Great Britain British female canoeists {{UK-canoe-bio-stub