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Álvaro Fernández (athlete)

Spanish middle-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ42806056 ↗
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Álvaro Fernández (born 7 April 1981) is a Spanish middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 1500 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Álvaro Fernández (athlete)” as spanish middle-distance runner. 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—1981, 1500, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-04-07. The account is most persuasive where Álvaro, Fernández and athlete can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as spanish middle-distance runner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q42806056. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1500 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Álvaro Fernández (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.