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Jay Johnson (runner)

American runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ43379560 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jay Johnson (born 8 November 1959) is a former American mountain runner who won 1987 World Mountain Running Championships.

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The public source identifies “Jay Johnson (runner)” as american runner. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Johnson, runner and American.

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—1959, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-11-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Johnson, runner and American providing the first useful test.
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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 Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43379560. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jay Johnson (runner)” 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.