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1952 Gent–Wevelgem

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ27867789 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1952 Gent–Wevelgem was the 14th edition of the Belgian Gent–Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 3 April 1952. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Raymond Impanis.

Editorial summary

“1952 Gent–Wevelgem” enters the record as cycling race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gent, Wevelgem and cycling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gent, Wevelgem and cycling.
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Why this record matters

“1952 Gent–Wevelgem” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gent, Wevelgem and cycling provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27867789. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1952 Gent–Wevelgem” 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.