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Kathy Vogt

Canadian speed skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ47529073 ↗
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Kathy Vogt (born March 7, 1959) is an American-born Canadian speed skater. She competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics and the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Vogt married Canadian hockey player Randy Gregg on June 9, 1984, in Edmonton. They have four children: Ryan, Sarah, and speed-skaters Jessica Gregg, and Jamie Gregg. Vogt and her family reside in Edmonton, Alberta.

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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—1959, 1976, 1980, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-03-07. The account is most persuasive where Kathy, Vogt and Canadian 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 Dec 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q47529073. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1976, 1980 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kathy Vogt” 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.