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Sarah Leith Bahn

American canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2022
Entity authorityQ104502883 ↗
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Sarah Leith Bahn is an American slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. She won a silver medal in the K-1 team event at the 1999 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell. She retired from whitewater slalom in 2004.

She is married to fellow canoeist Ryan Bahn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarah Leith Bahn” 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.