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Alex Ekström

cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ15999108 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alex Ekström (4 October 1883 – 20 February 1958) was a Swedish cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alex Ekström” as cyclist. 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, 1958, 1912—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1883-10-04. The account is most persuasive where Alex, Ekström and cyclist can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cyclist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Feb 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15999108. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1883, 1958 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alex Ekström” 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.