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Ray Bilney

Australian cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ17612127 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raymond Victor Bilney (born 2 November 1945) is an Australian former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was the Australian senior road champion for three years running, 1964 to 1966.

Editorial summary

“Ray Bilney” enters the record as australian cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bilney, Australian and cyclist 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—1945, 1964, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-11-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bilney, Australian and cyclist.
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“Ray Bilney” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bilney, Australian and cyclist provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17612127. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945, 1964 and 1966.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ray Bilney” 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.