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Jenny Orr

Australian middle-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ11724201 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jennifer Louise Orr (later McConnell, later Frank, born 21 January 1953) is a retired Australian middle-distance runner. She competed in the 800 m and 1500 m events at the 1972 Summer Olympics and placed eighth over 1500 m. Her son Daniel McConnell became an Olympic mountain biker.

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The public source identifies “Jenny Orr” as australian middle-distance runner. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jenny, Australian and middle-distance.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1500, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-21. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jenny, Australian and middle-distance providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11724201. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1500 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jenny Orr” 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.