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Calvin Mokoto

South African canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ5024459 ↗
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Calvin Mokoto (born 14 October 1988) is a South African canoe sprinter who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-1 500 m and the C-1 1000 m events.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Calvin Mokoto” as south African canoeist. 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—1988, 2008, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-10-14. The account is most persuasive where Calvin, Mokoto and South can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as south African canoeist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Nov 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5024459. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2008 and 1000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Calvin Mokoto” 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.