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William Goldsboro

Canadian marathon runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ15591644 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Bertrand Goldsboro (August 30, 1884 – May 1, 1937) was a track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Canada. He finished 16th in the Men's Marathon. He was affiliated with Central YMCA in Toronto.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “William Goldsboro” is canadian marathon runner. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through William, Goldsboro and Canadian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1937, 1908—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1884-08-30. For this dossier, William, Goldsboro and Canadian 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 Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15591644. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1884, 1937 and 1908.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Goldsboro” 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.