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Gary Powell (rugby union)

Welsh rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5525779 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gary Powell (born 30 October 1979) is a former rugby union player, with the Cardiff Blues.

Rugby

Powell joined Cardiff RFC in the summer of 1999 and had a successful season which included a call up to the Welsh Under 21 squad. Powell then moved to Richmond F.C., Leeds Tykes and Gloucester before returning to the Arms Park with Cardiff Blues in 2006.

In 2010, Powell had to retire due to a long-standing Achilles injury.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gary Powell (rugby union)” is welsh rugby union player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gary, Powell and rugby, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1979, 1999, 2006, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-10-30. For this dossier, Gary, Powell and rugby is the immediate research focus.
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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 Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5525779. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1999, 2006 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gary Powell (rugby union)” 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.