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Antonio Attanasio

Italian swimmer (1950–1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3619196 ↗
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Antonio Attanasio (2 January 1950 – 28 December 1982) was an Italian swimmer. He competed in the 100 m butterfly and 4 × 100 m medley relay events at the 1968 Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. He died aged 32 in a traffic accident.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Antonio Attanasio” is italian swimmer (1950–1982). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Antonio, Attanasio and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1950, 1982, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-01-02. For this dossier, Antonio, Attanasio and Italian is the immediate research focus.
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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 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3619196. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1982 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antonio Attanasio” 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.