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Overill Dwyer-Brown

Jamaican athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ21936461 ↗
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Overill Dwyer-Brown (born 4 January 1961) is a Jamaican hurdler. She competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Dwyer-Brown competed for the Florida State Seminoles track and field team, finishing 5th in the 600 yards at the 1982 AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships.

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The public source identifies “Overill Dwyer-Brown” as jamaican athletics competitor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Overill, Dwyer-Brown and Jamaican.

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—1961, 1984, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-01-04. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Overill, Dwyer-Brown and Jamaican providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Overill Dwyer-Brown” 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.