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Usha Bhandari

Nepali volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ127691234 ↗
Source-derived summary

Usha Bhandari (born 15 June 2004) is a Nepali professional volleyball player. She has played for international clubs such as Falcon Club and the Maldives National Defence Force. She is also a member of the Nepal women's national volleyball team. In 2021, Usha was nominated for the NSJF Pulsar Sports Award and named best player at the NVA National Championship. Bhandari made her national volleyball debut at the age of 14.

Editorial summary

“Usha Bhandari” enters the record as nepali volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Usha, Bhandari and Nepali can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Usha, Bhandari and Nepali.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Usha Bhandari” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Usha, Bhandari and Nepali provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q127691234. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Usha Bhandari” 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.