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Armands Ližbovskis

Paralympic athlete of Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ4792866 ↗
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Armands Ližbovskis (born 18 November 1968) is a Paralympian athlete from Latvia competing mainly in F13 (classification) long jump events.

Career

Ližbovskis has competed in three Paralympics. In the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain he competed in the 100m, 200m, long jump and triple jump. In the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States again competing in the 100m, 200m, long jump and triple jump. His best achievement came in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece where he competed in the 100m and 200m and won a bronze medal in the long jump.

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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—1968, 1992, 1996, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-11-18. The account is most persuasive where Armands, Ližbovskis and Paralympic can be independently traced.
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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 Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4792866. VIAF identifies the subject as 8587161211568440070006. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1992, 1996 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Armands Ližbovskis” 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.