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Desiré Van Remortel

long-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5264524 ↗
Source-derived summary

Desiré Van Remortel (born 10 November 1892, date of death unknown) was a Belgian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Desiré Van Remortel” as long-distance runner. 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—1892, 1920—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Desiré, Remortel and long-distance can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as long-distance runner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5264524. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1892 and 1920.

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This entry incorporates text from “Desiré Van Remortel” 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.