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Frank Ward (cyclist)

Irish cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ65029852 ↗
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Frank Ward (born 23 July 1930) is an Irish retired cyclist. He won the Rás Tailteann in 1957.

Early life

Ward is a native of Dublin.

Career

Ward won the Junior Men's race at the 1952 Irish National Cycling Championships.

Ward was second in the 1956 Rás and won it in 1957. That year, he also won three stages (of eight) and was on the winning Dublin team. He also won the 1957 Rás Cathal Brugha.

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“Frank Ward (cyclist)” enters the record as irish cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frank, Ward and cyclist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1930, 1957, 1952, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-07-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Frank, Ward and cyclist.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65029852. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1957, 1952 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Ward (cyclist)” 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.