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Aleksandr Zolotarev (athlete)

Soviet triple jumper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ47546598 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zolotarev (born 13 March 1940) is a Soviet athlete. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Aleksandr Zolotarev (athlete)” enters the record as soviet triple jumper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aleksandr, Zolotarev and athlete can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1940, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-03-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aleksandr, Zolotarev and athlete.
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“Aleksandr Zolotarev (athlete)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Aleksandr, Zolotarev and athlete 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 Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47546598. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aleksandr Zolotarev (athlete)” 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.