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Chrisann Gordon

Jamaican sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ9190894 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chrisann Gordon (born 18 September 1994) is a Jamaican sprinter. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. She also competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 400 metres relay when Jamaica won silver.

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“Chrisann Gordon” enters the record as jamaican sprinter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chrisann, Gordon and Jamaican can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-09-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chrisann, Gordon and Jamaican.
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“Chrisann Gordon” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chrisann, Gordon and Jamaican provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9190894. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chrisann Gordon” 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.