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Joe Nelson (wrestler)

English freestyle sport wrestler (fl. 1934)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ65560113 ↗
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Joe Nelson was an English freestyle sport wrestler.

Wrestling career

Nelson was a member of the Bolton United Harriers & AC.

He represented England at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, where he competed in the featherweight division and won a silver medal.

He represented Lancashire and turned professional in the mid-thirties.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nelson, wrestler and English is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Joe Nelson (wrestler)” 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.