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Bryan Hines

Olympic wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ4980165 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bryan Hines (May 14, 1896 – September 10, 1964) was an American wrestler and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he won a bronze medal in the freestyle wrestling bantamweight division.

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The public source identifies “Bryan Hines” as olympic wrestler. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bryan, Hines and Olympic.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1896, 1964, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1896-05-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bryan, Hines and Olympic providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bryan Hines”, the useful work is to connect “olympic wrestler” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4980165. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1964 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bryan Hines” 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.