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Wendy Koenig

American middle-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ42294866 ↗
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Wendy Koenig (also known as Wendy Knudson; born May 28, 1955) is an American middle-distance runner. She competed in the 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Koenig competed in the AIAW for the Colorado State Rams track and field team, finishing runner-up in the 880 yards at the 1974 AIAW Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1972, 1976, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-05-28. The account is most persuasive where Wendy, Koenig and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wendy Koenig” 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.