Kelsey Wog

Kelsey Wog
Personal information
Full nameKelsey Lauren Wog
Born (1998-09-19) September 19, 1998 (age 26)
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubCali Condors (ISL 2019);[1] Toronto Titans (ISL 2020)
College teamUniversity of Manitoba[2]
CoachVlastimil Cerny
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Canada
World Championships (LC)
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2016 Windsor 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2022 Melbourne 4×200 m freestyle
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago 200 m breaststroke
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei 4×100 m freestyle
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Maui 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2016 Maui 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Maui 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Maui 100 m breaststroke

Kelsey Lauren Wog (born September 19, 1998) is a Canadian former breaststroke swimmer.[3] She won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m). At the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 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 Danielle Hanus, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Darcel. She is a resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is currently a member of the Toronto Titans for the International Swimming League.

She was named to the Canadian team for the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she placed twenty-third in the heats of the 100 m breaststroke and was disqualified from the 200 m breaststroke.[4][5]

At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, Wog placed first in the heats of the 200 m breakstroke, and then fifth in the semi-finals to qualify for the event final.[6] She was fourth in the event final, 0.66 seconds behind American bronze medalist Kate Douglass. She remarked "fourth is fourth but I'm really proud of my effort."[7] Wog then competed the breaststroke leg for Team Canada in the heats of the 4 × 100 m 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.[8] At the age of 26, she retired from swimming in 2024.[9]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ "ISL Announces the Cali Condors Team Roster for the 2019 Season" (Press release).
  2. ^ "Kelsey Wog – Swimming Canada".
  3. ^ COC Profile
  4. ^ "Winnipeg's Kelsey Wog punches ticket to Tokyo Olympics, qualifies in three events". Winnipeg Sun. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  5. ^ "Wog comes up short in 200m breaststroke semi". Winnipeg Free Press. July 28, 2021. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  6. ^ "McIntosh and Masse win gold to highlight historic night at Worlds". Swimming Canada. June 22, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
  7. ^ "Liendo completes double-double, Oleksiak and Wog place fourth". Swimming Canada. June 23, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  8. ^ "Summer McIntosh wins record second gold, fourth medal as Canada completes best-ever performance". Swimming Canada. June 25, 2022. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
  9. ^ Writer, Matthew De George-Senior (September 19, 2024). "Canadian Olympian Kelsey Wog Announces Retirement". Swimming World News. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  10. ^ "2020 Brown and Gold Awards". gobisons.ca/. March 27, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  11. ^ "Kelsey Wog wins 2020 U SPORTS Female Athlete of the Year". umanitoba.ca/. June 26, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2021.