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Chris Hibbert

Olympic field hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ5106874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chris Hibbert (born 29 April 1976) is a South African former field hockey player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He also competed in the 2002 and 2006 Hockey World Cups, and the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.

He was the South African Hockey Men's Player of the Year in 2006. He retired from international hockey in 2008 with 118 test caps.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Chris Hibbert” as olympic field hockey player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chris, Hibbert and Olympic.

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—1976, 2004, 2008, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-04-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chris, Hibbert and Olympic providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Chris Hibbert”, the useful work is to connect “olympic field hockey player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5106874. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2004, 2008 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chris Hibbert” 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.