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Billy Hanning Jr.

American ice sledge hockey player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ51440993 ↗
Source-derived summary

Billy Hanning Jr. (born April 18, 1985) was a member of the gold medal-winning US team in Para ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. He is a defenseman. Hanning lost a limb due to cancer.

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“Billy Hanning Jr.” enters the record as american ice sledge hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Billy, Hanning and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1985, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-04-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Billy, Hanning and American.
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Why this record matters

“Billy Hanning Jr.” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Billy, Hanning and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q51440993. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Billy Hanning Jr.” 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.