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Steve Santana

Canadian lawn bowler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ86746227 ↗
Source-derived summary

Steven 'Steve' Santana (born 1981) is a Canadian lawn bowler.

Bowls career

Santana was the 2011 Canadian Singles Champion and represented Canada at the 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.

He won a pairs gold medal with Ryan Bester at the 2015 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in New Zealand.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Steve Santana” as canadian lawn bowler. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1981, 2011, 2012, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Steve, Santana and Canadian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as canadian lawn bowler. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q86746227. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2011, 2012 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Steve Santana” 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.