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Dave Ross (rower)

Canadian rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ47468822 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dave Ross (born 16 November 1963) is a Canadian former rower. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard Business School.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dave Ross (rower)” as canadian rower. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1984, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-11-16. The account is most persuasive where Dave, Ross and rower can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as canadian rower. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q47468822. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1984 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dave Ross (rower)” 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.