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Alessandro del Torso

Italian skeleton racer (1883–1967)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ4716451 ↗
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Alessandro del Torso (10 September 1883 – 7 November 1967) was an Italian skeleton racer who competed in the late 1920s. He finished seventh in the men's skeleton event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

References

External links

Alessandro del Torso at Olympics.com

Alessandro del Torso at Olympedia

1928 men's skeleton results

Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Skeleton (Cresta Run)". The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 576.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alessandro del Torso” as italian skeleton racer (1883–1967). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1883, 1967, 1928, 1984—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1883-09-10, 1883-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Alessandro, Torso and Italian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as italian skeleton racer (1883–1967). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Dec 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4716451. VIAF identifies the subject as 90238841. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1883, 1967, 1928 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alessandro del Torso” 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.