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Zach Guthrie

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ32786198
Source-derived summary

Zach Guthrie (born 30 June 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Geelong with their second selection and thirty-third overall in the 2017 rookie draft. He made his debut in the draw against Greater Western Sydney at Spotless Stadium in round fifteen of the 2017 season and is the younger brother of Cats midfielder Cameron Guthrie.

Guthrie currently studies a Bachelor of Exercise Sport Science at Deakin University.

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Updated to the end of round 22, 2026.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Zach Guthrie” as australian rules footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1998, 2017, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-06-30. The account is most persuasive where Zach, Guthrie and Australian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as australian rules footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q32786198. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2017 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from Zach Guthrie” 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.