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Cephas Matafi

Zimbabwean athletics competitor (born 1971)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ5063491 ↗
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Cephas Matafi (born May 24, 1971) is a Zimbabwean long-distance runner. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where he finished in 58th place (2:26:17) in the men's marathon race. His personal best time is 2:15:14 hours, achieved in 1992. He is a two-time champion of the Paavo Nurmi Marathon (Turku) in Finland.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cephas Matafi” as zimbabwean athletics competitor (born 1971). 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—1971, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-05-24. The account is most persuasive where Cephas, Matafi and Zimbabwean can be independently traced.
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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 Q5063491. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cephas Matafi” 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.