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| Full name | Connie Polman-Tuin | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 January 1963 Powell River, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Connie Polman-Tuin (born 10 January 1963) is a Canadian former athlete. She competed in the women's heptathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1]
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