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Esko Salminen (field hockey)

Finnish sportsperson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ11858745 ↗
Source-derived summary

Esko Salminen (6 July 1920 – 16 April 1998) was a Finnish field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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“Esko Salminen (field hockey)” enters the record as finnish sportsperson. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Esko, Salminen and field can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1998, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1920-07-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Esko, Salminen and field.
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Why this record matters

“Esko Salminen (field hockey)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Esko, Salminen and field provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11858745. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1998 and 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Esko Salminen (field hockey)” 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.