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1979 AAA Championships

outdoor track and field competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ128304265 ↗
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The 1979 AAA Championships sponsored by Nationwide was the 1979 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 13 to 14 July 1979 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London, England.

Summary

The Championships covered two days of competition. The marathon was held in Coventry and the decathlon was held in Birmingham.

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The public source identifies “1979 AAA Championships” as outdoor track and field competition. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Championships, outdoor and track.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Championships, outdoor and track 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 Sep 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q128304265. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 AAA Championships” 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.