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Lisa Harvey

Canadian athletics competitor (born 1970)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ12059622
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Lisa Harvey (born February 7, 1970)

is a Canadian athlete who competed for Canada in the 10,000m (10k) competition of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Personal life

Harvey was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is married to Paul McCloy, a fellow 10k runner. She and her husband live in Calgary and have two children.

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External links

Media related to Lisa Harvey at Wikimedia Commons

Lisa Harvey at World Athletics

Lisa Harvey at Athletics Canada

Lisa Harvey at Team Canada

Lisa Harvey at Olympics.com

Lisa Harvey at Olympedia

Kelsall, Christopher (May 12, 2008). "Lisa Harvey". Flotrack. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2009.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lisa Harvey” as canadian athletics competitor (born 1970). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1992, 2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1970-02-07, 1970-07-02—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Lisa, Harvey and Canadian can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12059622. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1992, 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Lisa Harvey” 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.