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Gerry Coughlan

Irish athletics competitor (1903-1983)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ41800112 ↗
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Gerry Coughlan (23 March 1903 – 6 March 1983) was an Irish middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres and men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gerry Coughlan” 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.