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William Lloyd Phillips

Welsh gymnast

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ107407076 ↗
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William Lloyd Phillips (8 September 1881 – 22 April 1966) was a Welsh gymnast. He competed in the men's team all-around event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was the first Welshman to compete at the Olympics; until July 2021, only his surname was known.

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“William Lloyd Phillips” enters the record as welsh gymnast. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Lloyd and Phillips can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Lloyd Phillips” 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.