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Andy Jenks

American goalball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ62287104 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andrew Jenks (born September 21, 1990) is an American goalball player born with incomplete achromatopsia.

He was introduced to play goalball at a school sports day at the age of 10.

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The public source identifies “Andy Jenks” as american goalball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Andy, Jenks and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Andy, Jenks and American providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q62287104. The first chronological checks are 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andy Jenks” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.