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Juan Virgen

Mexican Beach Volley player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ23664916 ↗
Source-derived summary

Juan Ramón Virgen Pulido (born 9 April 1987) is a Mexican male volleyball and beach volleyball player.

With his club Tigres UANL he competed at the 2012 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship. As a beach volleyball player he competed at the 2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships and 2011 Pan American Games and 2015 Pan American Games. He qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's tournament with Lombardo Ontiveros, but they lost in the Round of 16 against Reinder Nummerdor and Christiaan Varenhorst, from the Netherlands.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Juan Virgen” is mexican Beach Volley player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Juan, Virgen and Mexican, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2012, 2013, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-04-09. For this dossier, Juan, Virgen and Mexican is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “mexican Beach Volley player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23664916. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2012, 2013 and 2011.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Juan Virgen” 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.