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Anna Wessman

Swedish athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4990338 ↗
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Anna Wessman (born 9 October 1989) is a Swedish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships.

Her personal best in the event is 61.42 metres set at Finnkampen in Tampere in 2016.

Wessman was an All-American thrower for the UTEP Miners track and field team, finishing 3rd in the javelin at the 2009 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

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“Anna Wessman” enters the record as swedish athletics competitor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anna, Wessman and Swedish 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—1989, 2009, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-10-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Anna, Wessman and Swedish.
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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 Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4990338. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2009 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anna Wessman” 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.