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Jack Hambidge

British sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ32640945 ↗
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Jack Hambidge (22 June 1907 – June 1994) was a British sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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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—1907, 1994, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1907-06-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jack, Hambidge and British providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jack Hambidge” 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.