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Geoffroy Mathieu

French swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ33987839 ↗
Source-derived summary

Geoffroy Mathieu (born 1 June 1997) is a French swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

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“Geoffroy Mathieu” enters the record as french swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Geoffroy, Mathieu and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-06-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Geoffroy, Mathieu and French.
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“Geoffroy Mathieu” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Geoffroy, Mathieu and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q33987839. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Geoffroy Mathieu” 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.