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Carlos Lucas

Chilean boxer (olympian)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3738256 ↗
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Carlos Lucas Manríquez (4 June 1930 – 19 April 2022) was a Chilean boxer. He won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He also claimed the bronze in the same weight category at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States.

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The public source identifies “Carlos Lucas” as chilean boxer (olympian). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Carlos, Lucas and Chilean.

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—1930, 2022, 1956, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-06-04. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Carlos, Lucas and Chilean providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Carlos Lucas” 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.