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Bahaa al-Farra

Olympic sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ3370502 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bahaa al-Farra (Arabic: بهاء الفرا; born 10 March 1991) is a Palestinian runner from Gaza. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 400 m event, posting a time of 49.93 seconds and was eliminated in the first round. Along with Woroud Sawalha, he was one of two runners representing Palestine.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bahaa al-Farra” as olympic sprinter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1991, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-03-10. The account is most persuasive where Bahaa, al-Farra and Olympic can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as olympic sprinter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3370502. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bahaa al-Farra” 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.