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Carey May

Irish long distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ1035934 ↗
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Carey May (born 19 July 1959 in Dublin) is a former long-distance runner from Ireland, who won the Osaka Ladies Marathon in 1983 and 1985.

May competed for the BYU Cougars track and field team in the AIAW.

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BYU-profile

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carey May". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Carey May” as irish long distance runner. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1983, 1985, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-07-19. The account is most persuasive where Carey, Irish and long can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as irish long distance runner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1035934. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1983, 1985 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carey May” 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.