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Lucy Williams

Australian Paralympic swimmer (born 1976)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6698575 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lucy Williams (born 6 April 1976) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SB6 event.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Lucy Williams” as australian Paralympic swimmer (born 1976). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lucy, Williams and Australian.

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—1976, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lucy, Williams and Australian providing the first useful test.
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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 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6698575. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lucy Williams” 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.