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Bassirou Doumbia

Senegalese sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ30794518 ↗
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Bassirou Doumbia (born 12 May 1942) is a Senegalese sprinter. He participated at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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The public source identifies “Bassirou Doumbia” as senegalese sprinter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bassirou, Doumbia and Senegalese.

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—1942, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-05-12. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bassirou, Doumbia and Senegalese providing the first useful test.
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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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30794518. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bassirou Doumbia” 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.