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Ashanti Obi

Nigerian sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ27983139 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ashanti Obi (born 14 October 1952) is a Nigerian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Ashanti Obi” as nigerian sprinter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ashanti, Nigerian and sprinter.

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—1952, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-10-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ashanti, Nigerian and sprinter providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ashanti Obi” 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.