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Janet Lee Shearer (born 17 July 1958) is a New Zealand sailor who competed for New Zealand at three Olympic Games and won a silver medal, with Leslie Egnot, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, in the women's 470 class.
Shearer and Egnot also finished second in the 1989 470 Class World Championships in Japan, she was part of the New Zealand crew that won the 1990 World Women's Match Racing Championships in New York, and Jan Shearer and Fiona Galloway competed for New Zealand in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in the 470W Class. Shearer and Galloway also won the centennial of 'Kiel Week' Germany in the 470W Class. Shearer and Egnot competed again at 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta finishing 16th. Their competitiveness was hampered by an injury Egnot was carrying at the time.
She later married fellow international yachtsman Murray Jones, a five-time America's Cup-winning sailor and designer, and five-time New Zealand Olympian. She commentated for TVNZ and Team New Zealand VIPs for the 1995, 2000 and 2003 America's Cups, and completed a Master of Business Studies (Management of Sport) at Massey University in 2002 while working as an engineer. Her daughter, Gemma, is a sailor and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Born in Dunedin on 17 July 1958, Shearer was educated at Otago Girls' High School and is a life member of Yachting NZ and Takapuna Boating Club. In 2016, Shearer was elected to the board of Snow Sports NZ.