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1983 Volta a Catalunya

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ20100208 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1983 Volta a Catalunya was the 63rd edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 7 September to 14 September 1983. The race started in Salou and finished at Igualada. The race was won by José Recio of the Kelme team.

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The public source identifies “1983 Volta a Catalunya” as cycling race. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Volta, Catalunya and cycling.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Volta, Catalunya and cycling providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q20100208. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “1983 Volta a Catalunya” 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.