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Alfredo Cubías

Salvadoran middle-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ42210383 ↗
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Alfredo Ernesto Cubías Borges (born 27 November 1945) is a Salvadoran middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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“Alfredo Cubías” enters the record as salvadoran middle-distance runner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alfredo, Cubías and Salvadoran 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—1945, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-11-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alfredo, Cubías and Salvadoran.
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“Alfredo Cubías” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alfredo, Cubías and Salvadoran provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q42210383. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alfredo Cubías” 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.