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Field hockey at the 1995 All-Africa Games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ12632337 ↗
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Field Hockey was among the sports at the 6th All Africa Games held in September 1995 in Harare, Zimbabwe. The play featured both a men's and women's tournament. The winners of each tournament qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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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—1995, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Field, hockey and All-Africa providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Field hockey at the 1995 All-Africa Games” 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.