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Álvaro Ribeiro

sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ16008785 ↗
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Álvaro Ribeiro (16 May 1901 – 11 November 1979) was a Brazilian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres and the 200 metres events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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“Álvaro Ribeiro” enters the record as sprinter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Álvaro, Ribeiro and sprinter can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Álvaro Ribeiro” 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.