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- ↑ "Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Matthew Hall".
- ↑ Mariposa School Of Skating - National Training Centre
- ↑ ESPN "The brief history of gay athletes", retrieved from espn.go.com August 31, 2006
- "Skate Canada Results Book - Volume 2 - 1974 - current" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-20.
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