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Andorran Swimming Federation

sports governing body in Andorra

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5439935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Federació Andorrana de Natació (FAN) is the governing body of swimming in Andorra. It is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1985 on a meeting at the Andorran Olympic Committee. It is both a member of European Aquatics and World Aquatics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Andorran Swimming Federation” is sports governing body in Andorra. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Andorran, Swimming and Federation, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985. For this dossier, Andorran, Swimming and Federation is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “sports governing body in Andorra” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5439935. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andorran Swimming Federation” 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.