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Gerd May

German fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5550452 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gerd May (born 3 June 1953) is a German fencer. He competed in the team sabre event for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Gerd May” as german fencer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gerd, German and fencer.

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—1953, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-06-03. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gerd, German and fencer providing the first useful test.
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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 Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5550452. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gerd May” 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.