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Myroslav Dykun

British wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6948512 ↗
Source-derived summary

Myroslav Dykun (born 24 October 1982) is a Ukrainian born British amateur wrestler in the Greco-Roman and freestyle disciplines, most notable for his gold medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Born in Ukraine, Dykun moved to England in 2003. He was a three-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships in 2006, 2007 and 2009.

He switched from freestyle to Greco-Roman in early 2010.

In 2012 Dykun tested positive in a drugs test and was given a two-year ban.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Myroslav Dykun” is british wrestler. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Myroslav, Dykun and British, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1982, 2010, 2003, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-10-24. For this dossier, Myroslav, Dykun and British is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “british wrestler” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6948512. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2010, 2003 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Myroslav Dykun” 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.