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Federico Cesarano

fencer (1886–1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ3741669 ↗
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Federico Secondo Benvenuto Cesarano (5 July 1886 – 22 January 1969) was an Italian fencer and sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in the individual sabre event at the 1906 Intercalated Games. He also won the gold medal in the team sabre in the fencing at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

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“Federico Cesarano” enters the record as fencer (1886–1969). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Federico, Cesarano and fencer 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—1886, 1969, 1906, 1920—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-07-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Federico, Cesarano and fencer.
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This entry incorporates text from “Federico Cesarano” 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.