Kelsey Lauren Wog (born September 19, 1998) is a Canadian

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. She won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the

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. At the

2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships The 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships were held from 24 to 27 August 2016 at Lahaina Aquatic Center in Maui, Hawaii, United States.

in Maui, Wog captured two individual medals. She earned silver in the 200-m breaststroke and bronze in the 100 m breaststroke. She also contributed to a silver medal in the 4×100-m medley relay with teammates

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, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Darcel. She is a resident of

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, and is currently a member of the

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for the

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. She was named to the Canadian team for the

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, where she placed twenty-third in the heats of the 100 m breaststroke and was disqualified from the 200 m breaststroke. At the

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, Wog placed first in the heats of the 200 m breakstroke, and then fifth in the semi-finals to qualify for the event final. She was fourth in the event final, 0.66 seconds behind American bronze medalist

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. She remarked "fourth is fourth but I'm really proud of my effort." Wogthen competed the breaststroke leg for Team Canada in the heats of the medley relay, helping the team qualify to the final in fourth position. She was replaced in the final by Rachel Nicol, but shared in the team's bronze medal win.

Awards and honors

*2020

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Female Athlete of the Year *2020

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wog, Kelsey 1998 births Living people Canadian female breaststroke swimmers Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Canada Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan Swimmers from Winnipeg Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Canada World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century Canadian women