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Ali Galyer

New Zealand swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ65769726
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Ali Galyer (born 19 June 1998) is a New Zealand swimmer. Born in Australia before moving to USA when she was three, she had never lived in New Zealand. Her New Zealand citizenship comes from her father. She went to the University of Kentucky where she studied marketing. After she finished at Kentucky, she moved to New Zealand to live and train with the Coast Swim Club elite team.

She competed in the 200 Backstroke, 100 backstroke and 4x200 Freestyle Relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She also competed in the women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2020, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-06-19. The account is most persuasive where Galyer, Zealand and swimmer can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65769726. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2020 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Ali Galyer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.