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Edda Bonutto

Australian bowls player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ60191531 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edda Bonutto (16 February 1939 – 26 June 1998) was an Australian female international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

She won a silver medal in the women's pairs with Maureen Hobbs at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.

Four years later she competed in the singles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

She won two medals at the 1991 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including a gold in the pairs with Daphne Shaw, in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Edda Bonutto” as australian bowls player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1998, 1990, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Edda, Bonutto and Australian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as australian bowls player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60191531. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1998, 1990 and 1994.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edda Bonutto” 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.