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Simon Wachira

Kenyan race walker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ26845570 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simon Muriithi Wachira (born 6 May 1984) is a Kenyan race walker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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“Simon Wachira” enters the record as kenyan race walker. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Simon, Wachira and Kenyan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2016—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1984-05-06, 1984-03-06—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Simon, Wachira and Kenyan.
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Why this record matters

“Simon Wachira” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Simon, Wachira and Kenyan 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 Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26845570. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simon Wachira” 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.