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Edward Sommerville

Australian swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ131441003 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edward Sommerville (born 21 March 2005) is an Australian competitive swimmer. He won a bronze medal at the 4 × 200 m freestyle at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships. He also holds the Australian records in 4 × 100 m and 200 m freestyle relay races.

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“Edward Sommerville” enters the record as australian swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Edward, Sommerville and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-03-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Edward, Sommerville and Australian.
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“Edward Sommerville” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Edward, Sommerville and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131441003. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edward Sommerville” 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.