Kennedy Goss (born August 19, 1996)
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. Goss won 7 medals at the 2013 Canada Games
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, including 5 gold.
In 2016, she was named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics
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as part of the 4x200 metre freestyle relay team.
Personal life
Her father Sandy Goss is a former competitive swimmer for Canada, and competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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and 1988 Summer Olympics
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, winning two silver medals.[
Kennedy competes for The Indiana University Hoosiers.]
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1996 births
Living people
Canadian female freestyle swimmers
Swimmers from Toronto
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Olympic swimmers for Canada
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Canada
Indiana Hoosiers women's swimmers
Canadian expatriate swimmers in the United States
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
21st-century Canadian sportswomen
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