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Alexander Taransky

Australian sports shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ23020409 ↗
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Alexander Taransky (8 January 1941 – 8 December 2017) was an Australian sports shooter. He competed at the 1968, 1972 and the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was also selected for the Australian Pistol Shooting Team for the 1980 Summer Olympics however the Australian Shooting Team joined the boycott of the Moscow Olympics. He competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane where he won two gold medals for pistol shooting.

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The public source identifies “Alexander Taransky” as australian sports shooter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alexander, Taransky and Australian.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 2017, 1968, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-01-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alexander, Taransky and Australian providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23020409. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 2017, 1968 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexander Taransky” 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.