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Benjamin Donnelly

Canadian speed skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ23010000 ↗
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Benjamin Donnelly (born August 22, 1996) is a Canadian speed skater. Donnelly was born in Ajax, but his hometown is the neighbouring city of Oshawa.

Career

Junior

During the 2016 World Junior Speed Skating Championships held in Changchun, China, Donnelly won 5 medals (three gold). Donnelly won two individual gold medals, a silver in the team pursuit and 1500m and the overall title.

2018 Winter Olympics

In January 2018, Donnelly was named to Canada's 2018 Olympic team.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-08-22. The account is most persuasive where Benjamin, Donnelly and Canadian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Benjamin Donnelly” 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.