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Francesco Gargano

fencer (1889–1975)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ1439319 ↗
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Francesco Gargano (5 May 1899 – 29 October 1975) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

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“Francesco Gargano” enters the record as fencer (1889–1975). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Francesco, Gargano 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—1899, 1975, 1920—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1889-05-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Francesco, Gargano and fencer.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1439319. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1899, 1975 and 1920.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francesco Gargano” 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.