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Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Team jumping

equestrian event at the 2004 Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ3730942 ↗
Source-derived summary

The individual jumping event, part of the equestrian program at the 2004 Summer Olympics, was held from 22 August to 24 August 2004 in the Olympic Equestrian Centre on the outskirts of Markopoulo in the Attica region of Greece. Like all other equestrian events, the jumping competition was mixed gender, with both male and female athletes competing in the same division.

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The public source identifies “Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Team jumping” as equestrian event at the 2004 Olympics. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Equestrian, Summer and Olympics.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Equestrian, Summer and Olympics providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3730942. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Team jumping” 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.