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Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Welterweight

boxing event at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ9176455 ↗
Source-derived summary

The men's welterweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 67 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 29 July to 2 August 1952. 29 boxers from 29 nations competed.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Welterweight” is boxing event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Boxing, Summer and Olympics, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Boxing, Summer and Olympics is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “boxing event at the 1952 Summer Olympics” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9176455. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Welterweight”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Welterweight primary sources, Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Welterweight archive and Boxing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Welterweight” 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.