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Alejandro Urgelles Guibot

basketball player (1951-1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ2086730 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alejandro Urgelles Guibot (July 2, 1951 in Santiago de Cuba – October 6, 1984) was a basketball player from Cuba, who won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

References

Alejandro Urgelles Guibot's profile at databaseOlympics

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alejandro Urgelles". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alejandro Urgelles Guibot” as basketball player (1951-1984). 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—1951, 1984, 1972, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-07-02. The account is most persuasive where Alejandro, Urgelles and Guibot can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as basketball player (1951-1984). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2086730. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1984, 1972 and 2020.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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 “Alejandro Urgelles Guibot” 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.