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Cora Campbell

Canadian water polo player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5169389
Source-derived summary

Cora Campbell (born May 28, 1974) is a Canadian water polo player. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary. She was part of the 5th place women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the bronze medal winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She was a member of the 7th place Canadian women's water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She graduated from Riverdale High School. Her coach Pat Oaten is also a coach at the Dollard-des-Ormeaux Civic Center.

Editorial summary

“Cora Campbell” enters the record as canadian water polo player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cora, Campbell and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2000, 2001, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-05-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cora, Campbell and Canadian.
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“Cora Campbell” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cora, Campbell and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5169389. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 2000, 2001 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Cora Campbell” 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.