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Leo Feeney

Northern Irish cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ136690246 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leo T. Feeney is a former racing cyclist from Northern Ireland, who represented Northern Ireland at the British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games).

Biography

Feeney was a member of the Abbey Cycling Club of Belfast and won the 1955 championship of Ireland over 880 yards.

He represented the 1958 Northern Irish Team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, participating in three cycling program events; the time trial, the sprint and the scratch race.

Feeney won two titles at the Irish National Cycling Championships and participated at several world championship events.

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“Leo Feeney” enters the record as northern Irish cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Feeney, Northern and Irish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Feeney, Northern and Irish.
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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 Nov 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q136690246. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955 and 1958.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leo Feeney” 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.